Hi! Tom,

On Sat, 28 Dec 13, you wrote to me:

 TW> Left out one point. you have to set the printers up as SHARED as I
 TW> recall. I have not done any networking in quite a while. When both the
 TW> wife and I were runnign Win 95 I have it set up but she is on Win XP
 TW> and I am Reluctantly running Win 7. I made a try at networking a Win 7
 TW> and XP machine and ran into a nightmare so I just decided to forgot
 TW> it.

We went through the same hiccups here too.  Our youngest daughter went
through the XP->Vista->Win7 upgrades which effectively cut her off
from our LAN setup.  Vista & Win7 refused to network with us, no matter
what secrets/tricks I tried.  So, I gave up too.  One good thing came of it
though: we scored a second XP licence.  :)  Which is what Barb is using
these days.  I'm using our first licence on my PC, downstairs.  Both are
running courtesy of VirtualBox on our U'u machines.

 TW> I just transfer a file occasionaly for a format conversion, She is
 TW> still using Wordperfect 8 and needes to e mail a file to someone using
 TW> MS Word, using a USB drive and that works for me since I am not really
 TW> interested in using any of her programs.

That is what I use OO for, on my U'u... very rarely though.  It's probably
been over 12 months since I've run OO up for anything.  We still rely on MS
Office Pro 2003 for every day use.  I can use it on Barb's XP vBox remotely
from my U'u PC, in a RDP session.  Only one of us can use it at any one
time though, since XP allows only a single user session.

On a related thought: I sometimes do Barb's backups from my PC downstairs,
using RDP.  It's a mind-bending situation then, since I'm
remote-controlling Barb's XP which is backing up its files to another
(Linux) vBox on my U'u PC.  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

... Tower case?  Nah, fell off the desk and landed that way.
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox