HELP how do I do a ip connection via usb2ser in win vista?

Capdiamont

Hello,
I use parallax's usb2ser quite often on backing up phone systems for our customers. I used to be able to use it in win xp using a direct cable connection to connect using ip addresses over that connection. I had to get a new laptop which has win vista. I can get putty and dos programs to work almost perfectly(except backspace key). Problem is I don't know how to direct cable connection with vista. BTW parallax's usb2ser is the best I've come across.

Post Edited (Capdiamont) : 11/1/2007 2:52:16 AM GMT

Capdiamont

Please help.

Mike Green

I think you're not getting answers partly because what you've posted doesn't make sense. What do you mean by a "direct cable connection"? To me that means a piece of wire from one piece of equipment to another. "IP addresses" refers to the message addressing scheme for Internet connections.
The USB2SER device just provides a TTL level bidirectional serial port without flow control to a USB virtual serial port and helps mimic a "direct cable connection", particularly on computers not equipped with "real" serial ports.

Harrison.

The issue here is you are not describing what Direct Cable Connection is. That term was used back in the 95/98 days when Windows included a utility to directly mimic dialup networking over serial / parallel connections. This gave you an IP connection that gives you netbios and cifs/smb file sharing.

Windows XP changed this by forcing you to use the 'create a new connection' wizard to create a new direct connection via serial, parallel, or irda. In fact, XP's method makes it easier to work with when compared to the old 9x methods of fiddling with the lacking utilities.

Unfortunately, I believe Microsoft has dropped DCC as a method of direct connection. My guess is that there are so many faster/better/cheaper methods of connection (bluetooth, irda, usb, ethernet, wifi, etc).

In your situation, you will likely have to look at third party solutions (Laplink, etc) or move to a modern method. I would recommend ethernet, but this is probably not an option for you as I am betting the phone systems you speak of are ancient.

Harrison

Capdiamont

Yes, Harrison, that DCC that win xp has is what I want. Believe it or not the latest NEC aspire systems use 9 pin serial connection, on the small ones. The larger also has usb, and ethernet. The windows software to edit/backup require you to put in the ip address of the phone system. The old systems are easy to connect to, using DOS programs, just send the phone system AT commands to connect. Sometimes have to use special cables to do it, or a digital phone line to three 25pin rs232 serial ports to do it, but it works quite well.