You CANNOT connect 2 computers together with a normal USB cable. You
need a special cable with an electronic circuit known as a USB
laplink cable such as *www.cablesnmor.com/usb-laplink.html
If you use a normal cable you can short ur USB ports
even tho this isnt require but yet
You can also connect using a crossover cable between the parallel ports
and the serial ports of two computers but the NIC cards and RJ45
crossover cable is probably the simplest and least expenisve way to go.
now u usually get software with some cables .. to set ur usb port as a network adapter ...
or u can use the windows direct cable connection .. try it out !