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I would strongly recommend Ethernet for the physical connection.
High-quality Ethernet cards are now available for throw-away prices. If
you only wish to connect two machines, you can do this without any
hardware other than the cards, using a cable with a "twist." More than
two machines (including notebooks) can be thrown into the equation with
the addition of a very inexpensive hub. All the software you need is
built into Win95 or WinNT. Once you get used to Ethernet speed, you'll
never consider parallel port comm acceptable again.
I have networked my machines. One of the most useful things I do with it
is transfer current work to and from my notebook. Since I have put my
printers on the network, printing from the notebook is now a trivial
exercise.
Allan
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John M Pennington wrote:
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> I wish to connect two computers and do backups from one to the other.
> I know this has been discussed here before, and I thought I had saved
> those posts, but I can't find them.
>
> Someone mentioned that Win95 has built-in communications capabilities,
> How are the systems connected, serial/parallel or ethernet? And how
> do you set up the software?
>
> Thanks,
> JP
> jpenn@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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