>I was wondering if it is possible to have a network with two (more computers) connected to a DSL/Cable router?
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>Here is what I will have:
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>DSL Modem. Linksys router connected to the DSL Modem. Then PCs connected to the Linksys router (either wired or wireless).
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>Can a setup be made that PC A will see drives on PC B and so on? Also, if PC A has IIS installed, can PC B load web pages from PC A (that is to have an Intranet).
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>Thank you for any help or suggestions.
Two ways, both involving a workgroup, i.e. first you need to set all of your local machines to belong to the same workgroup.
Then, one way is to set automatic IP number on each one of them and touch nothing on the router (mine is D-link, but I had another one before and it seems to work the same way). The other is to set the IP number on the router for each workstation (you have a range of addresses there, typically starting off 192.168.0.100, 192.198.0.101 etc).
On the router itself (typical address is //192.168.0.1/, but check your router's manual) you may only need to copy the NIC number of the machine on which was the cable or DSL set up to be presented as the NIC number to the cable/DSL modem (also known as MAC number). The routers I had so far have an option somewhere in the setup to copy the selected number. This number is what the router reports to the modem, so it cheats on it a little, the modem thinks it's on the same machine that it was installed for.
On that machine, you need to disable, uninstall, or generally kill any PoET (PPP over Ethernet) software - that's for direct communication with the modem, which will now be done by the router.
Once you get it done for one machine, you can just keep adding machines - I've added a laptop recently, and one old machine is now a Linux box, and they've seen Internet immediately as they were plugged in. Seeing each other took a little mumbo-jumbo, I had to visit shared drives via the IP numbers first, something like
cd //192.168.0.102/d$
but after a while the actual machine names started popping up, and I can also print through this local network.
