OT: Need Help With Home Networking

[Narrew]

Wrong Puke, what I did was inside his home network (LAN), I changed nothing on the WAN side, his router will Obtain an IP address (from the cable modem) since most ISP's rarely give a permanent IP address and refresh it every few days.

Going Static is not a problem for a home network, for a company yea, it is a problem on the network management side.

My suggestion, you do not have to worry about netbios naming, firewalls or anything else. And when you say netbios, no company will use it. Netbios is an old protocol that is inefficient (the overhead that it adds to the network may not be much for a home network, but why burden your system).

[Puke]

im not going to argue with you about it son. its a dead simple configuration, and you dont need to go changing things that are not broken. home Users also dont need to worry about ip configuration when they add or move PCs.

if your COMFORTABLE with how ip works, sure you can set it up however you want. but you're trying to give a geek's configuration to someone who doesnt know the difference between a bridge and a router.

now stop being snippy.

[Gryphin]

Don't know if this will help or hurt.
I connect
two system
running XP Pro
through a
10+- year old Lynksys hub
to a
cable modem, (not DSL)>
enjoy

[Atrocities]

Oh this is very bizzar.

Ok, the Win2k PC sees and access the shared files on the XP PC. The XP PC does see the win2k PC, but is not allowed access. The Win2k PC has no passwords so I don't get it.

However, I can send files from the Win2k PC to the XP PC so I am happy. (Kind of.)

[Narrew]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Oh this is very bizzar.

Ok, the Win2k PC sees and access the shared files on the XP PC. The XP PC does see the win2k PC, but is not allowed access. The Win2k PC has no passwords so I don't get it.

However, I can send files from the Win2k PC to the XP PC so I am happy. (Kind of.)

Your issue goes back to what I was saying below. XP (and W2K for that matter) uses Permissions to allow Users to access Files/Directories on another machine. There are settings of user Groups and other stuff that, well just makes things complicated on a home network.

What I suggest is that on each machine is to make a Temp Folder and share that folder (just right click on the folder and select Sharing/Security then click the "Share this Folder on the Network" also check the "Allow network Users to make changes to my files").

BUT, only do that to one folder per machine. Sure it is a pain to move something over to your other computer, then go to that computer to put the file where you want it, but there are security features for a reason, even if people find a way around them, but no sense you makeing it easier for them.