Direct Cable Connection Please HELP

[David Palmer]

So far 36 hours spent trying to move all my files from my
old Win95 platform PC to my XP pc - my portable hard disk
won't work with XP & although I've downloaded every single
article that even mentions DIRECT CABLE CONNECTION from
the Knowledge Base (& followed appropriate advice, the
best I've achieved is to get the XP to be a Guest (but
although it says "connected" you can't see anything in
explorer except the Host computer name(yes I've shared).
Also, when I try XP as HOST it doesn't say "Listening" (or
give the option to choose Listen as per W95) & W95 as
Guest reports "Cable Disconnected"
I had a full head of hair 4 days ago! - PLEASE HELP

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

In article >, "David Palmer"
> wrote:
>So far 36 hours spent trying to move all my files from my
>old Win95 platform PC to my XP pc - my portable hard disk
>won't work with XP & although I've downloaded every single
>article that even mentions DIRECT CABLE CONNECTION from
>the Knowledge Base (& followed appropriate advice, the
>best I've achieved is to get the XP to be a Guest (but
>although it says "connected" you can't see anything in
>explorer except the Host computer name(yes I've shared).
>Also, when I try XP as HOST it doesn't say "Listening" (or
>give the option to choose Listen as per W95) & W95 as
>Guest reports "Cable Disconnected"
>I had a full head of hair 4 days ago! - PLEASE HELP

This web page has complete instructions:

DirectParallel® and Direct Cable Connection (DCC) Step-by-Step SETUP
http://www.lpt.com/Support/DCC-SetUp/dcc-setup.htm
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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