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by springrwilliams

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I have tried everything from original settings to changing to netbeu. Always making sure all the settings are the same in both WinMe systems. It says that the is a direct cable connection in the Device Manager modems. I have downloaded and tried alltypes of programs besides the DCC such as FastLynx Star Gate DPM by Parallel Tech., DCShare,Fx32Demo. I don't have dos to run Interlnk and Interserv. I have bought both a null modem serial cable and from another store a parallel lpt transfer cable. These will not work. The host keeps asking if the guest is running and the guest keeps saying that it cannot connect to the host computer, to make sure I have DCC running on host and that cable is connected. No other programs work either to establishany connection at all. Both the serial ports on both systems work with mouse and game hardware, both pcs can run the printer. The system does reserve the ports for the transfer as I have to reconfigure the printer when I plug it back in and have to uninstall DCC and reconfigure my modem to connect to internet even though the modem has it's own port. Any ideas?

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by puppydogeyes4u2

I would check that saring is enabled. That the Parallel ports are set to bi-directional. check that both computers are assigned to the same workgroup.And that file sharing is enabled.

by springrwilliams

Thank you for your answer. I didn't get a chance to try checking the setting of bi-directional for the parallel port, and have already returned the cable. I traded it out for a serial cable, and though I had tried one already, the new one worked. Never did get the parallel cable to work at all. I know cables "never go bad", but that must have been going on with mine. I do have a new problem though. The transfer worked just fine for several days. Then suddenly it had trouble transfering a largefile and disabled the port. Now I am having trouble getting the port to work again. Any advice with this would be appreciated. :)

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