Somewhere in the Network configuration for the USB connection in Win2000 should be an option to detect the link state.
Can't remember exactly where this is in 2000 or what it says, but uncheck it so that 2000 always thinks the link is up.
I've had problems like this before where Windows thinks the link is down when it is fine in reality
On Sunday 27 July 2003 21:19, Dan Hatton wrote:
got the USB cable to be the default route from 10.0.1.1 to 10.0.1.2, which is the Windows 2000 machine on the other end. Now I'd like to be able to do something with the link. However,
10.0.1.2 thinks the link is down ("network cable unplugged," in Windows parlance,) and trying to ping either machine, from the other, results in 100% packet loss.If I reboot 10.0.1.1 into Windows 98, 10.0.1.2 sees the link go up, and I'm able to manipulate files across it happily, using SMB. I reckon this indicates that the hardware is working correctly.