From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 14: 0:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (mail-1.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33AAE37B58B; Fri, 19 May 2000 14:00:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from otter@otter.cc) Received: from otter.cc (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA26387; Fri, 19 May 2000 13:58:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3925ABCA.5A0CE59A@otter.cc> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 17:02:02 -0400 From: Otter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Zhihui Zhang , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Connecting two FreeBSD machines References: <20000519204434.FCVZ22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > > On 19-May-00 Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > I have a desktop FreeBSD box and a laptop FreeBSD box. Both running > > FreeBSD 4.0-release. I want to connect them with a parallel cable to > > transfer files between them. I assume that the parallel cable is the one > > used to connect a PC to a parallel printer. Can someone tell me how to do > > this step by step? > > You can run TCP/IP over this, but you need a special cable, the equivalent > of a null modem cable, but for printer instead of for serial. > I hadn't really thought of this until now, but... I do use PC Anywhere at works sometimes. Has anyone had any luck using the parallel cable they send you with the application for use in something like this? If I knew what the pin-out was, I could look up whether it matches a null modem cable. -Otter > > Any help is appreciated. > > > > -Zhihui > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message