>>>I found that a while back when I was using a laptop and switching between dialup and broadband while traveling, and while making repairs to other people's dialup machines in my home network. I
>>think it is the easiest way of doing it.
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>>Again, thank you for your help. I am going to be trying to make my small LAN working so I am sure I will have more newbie questions. I have two books on it but it is much easier simply to ask here :)
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>I will try to answer any questions. I have tried to do many things to my LAN in my house so I have learned quite a few lessons.
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>BTW, don't plug two ends of the same network cable into your network. That lesson was learned the hard way. ;-)
Thank you for lesson 1 :). I usually go the other way: leave both ends unplugged and look for the problem :).
My network by the way is 3 computers connected to a Linksys router. I just want to have one computer drives shared by all other computers. I was planning to create a Network Setup Wizard (on XP PC) and run it on the Win 2000 PC. Is this a good approach?
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