Re: Modem sharing
Posted by: revsamarshall <revsamarshall@...>
What I would do. Pick up an inexpensive Hub, a net card for laptop and one
for Dekstop, and make it a network. Then it should work. I do not think
that WIN98SE Sharing program recognizes the serial port as a TCP device.
At 02:45 PM 5/14/00 +1000, you wrote:
>Greetings
>
>I understand Internet Connection Sharing in Win98SE enables
>computers on a network to share an internet connection by
>assigning IP addresses to the different computers.
>
>Our pastor went to a computer shop and asked how he could hook
>his laptop up to his desktop to share the modem that is in the
>desktop. He was sold a null modem cable and told to stick it in
>the back of the desktop and into the laptop and that it would be
>easy to setup in modem properties?
>
>Is this the case? I haven't been up there but he says it hasn't
>worked and I don't know enough about this area to help him without
>more information myself - I always thought the whole point of
>internet sharing was that is wasn't possible in this way without
>software and network connections. I looked up null modem cable
>and got the impression it used modem emulation to provide a link
>between to PC's.
>
>Any weblinks or advice gratefully accepted.
>
>Deb
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Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
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Faith Lutheran Church
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