On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:15:36AM -0500, John J. Cruz wrote:
> Silly question to ask.
>
> We at work have recently had our laptops replace with new Dell Latitudes
> and with windows 2000 installed. In the past I was able to connect the
> work laptop to my home PC using win95 “direct cable connection”
> feature. Windows 2000 requires logging in as “administrator”. I'm not
> familiar with windows 2000.
Windows NT (Windows 2000 has previous name NT5.0 :) can't use parallel port
direct cable connection (only serial port). Direct cable connection either
style is incompatible with linux.
> Has anyone been able to circumvent the “log in as administrator”
> requirement?
Ask on windows lists/groups.
Mirek
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