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>If you are just doing this for a testing/learning experience, you don't need to set up a publicly-accessible web server.
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>If you want to set up a web server on a different computer, you could create a small network in your office using an inexpensive broadband router (which you may already have). Give the web server a fixed IP, like 192.168.1.10. On your workstation, you add a line to your local HOSTS file (typically C:\%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts):

192.168.1.10    yournewdomain.com

That way, anytime you want to go to yournewdomain.com from your workstation, you'll be directed to the web server on your local network.
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>Depending on your workstation OS, you can even install IIS on your local computer, and "host" your domain there. IOW, you don't even need a separate computer. In that case, in your HOSTS file you would put

127.0.0.1    yournewdomain.com

Both of these options give you internet-style access to a fully "hosted" domain. Functionally it's the same as what you'd get with a "real" web server, which is the whole idea.

Al,

Thank you for your suggestion. I actually already tried this (accessing a web site from one PC on the "server" PC). And it works (painfully slow because my "server" has only 56 Mb RAM on older type processor). And as you correctly assumed, both PC are connected to a Linksys router.

I will keep playing with this stuff until I break something <g>