I talked to John at Tormach and he was very helpful indeed!

The main problem was that I had the adapter plugged into a 6 foot usb cable, turns out they dont like long cables, plugged it into the machine and it worked. That was the simple part, then on the other conmputer I had to set up paths, home networking and on and on, at my age that isnt an easy task when you arent familiar with it!!
I closed the metal door on the machine computer and now its not working again, so I am going to move the computer to a shelf outside the machine, the range should be better and I can get to the computer without having to get on the floor etc.
I will have to figure out how to transfer a tap file thru the new setup to the machine, that may take some time.......

I think some major moving components and it should work OK.

I sure wish they would get the usb icons converted to a list then things would be much easier for me thats for sure......

Thanks for the help offers guys, but i dont know enough about this to ask an intelligent question yet.