Re OT Search terms

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

Bob: Carl gave me a good lead, but since you asked:
Ethernet connection in both cases over 10/100 base T Cat 5. Win 98 SE on
the laptop and my desktop, Win 98 and 95 OSR/2 on the office desktops. I
need to check at the office to see whether they're using static or
dynamic addressing; network isn't set up on my desktop yet. Does one have
a choice, or does the install wizard just assign the addressing protocol?
Robert: thanks for all that, but the chief thing is I'm NOT interested in
Internet connectivity. Nobody here has broadband, and the office is using
(shudder) AOL. What I basically need is to be able to copy files too big
for floppies (the laptop's CD is too old to read CD-Rs) back and forth
from laptop to desktop, here and there. In a pinch I can hook the
parallel port Zip Drive up to the laptop, and both my desktop and one at
the office have built-in ZIPs. But a network connection would be simpler.
I set up two of the office desktops to be part of the existing network,
but I wasn't sure how to be part of two separate ones. Will see if 98
supports User profiles; I think it does, though nowhere near as well as
NT/2K/XP. Thanks to the Ping lesson you gave me earlier, when we were
looking into mapping USB, I do have this PC's address. (By the by, I got
a ThinkPad: 760XL. The CD's a pathetic 4x and won't eject, but I swear
the machine boots faster than my nominally 10 times as fast desktop. Go
figure.)
Patricia