Re: Networking Newbie

From: Menno Hershberger (mhersh22_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:33:50 -0800

"Geddy Lee" <nospam@for.me> wrote in
news:OApowuRCEHA.712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:

> Hi Group,
>
> We have 2 computers. One Laptop and one PC, both with XP Home. Our ISP
> is AOL -Germany.(I'm not german, I just live here. :-) ) We are
> wireless Lanned with a D-Link 624+ Access Point and the PC with a
> D-Link 520 PC card and I myself am wireless with Netgear in my laptop.
>
> Our ISP (AOL- Germany) and our computers are hooked up in that we
> automatically become our IP's when we turn our computers on. So
> naturally we are permanently online.
>
> Question: We wish to make a small home network. What do we use for IP
> addresses? 192.168.0.3 and 4; as the 1 and 2 are taken by the
> internet.
    Actually, you are already networked. 192.168.9.1 (and 2) are local IP
addresses of your two machines. Your internet IP is totally different. See
http://showcase.netins.net/web/mewnlite/ip
You need to right click My Computer, pick Properties, then the Computer
Name tab on each computer. Click on the "change" button and give each
computer a name and then assign a workgroup name which is the same on each
computer. Then, in My Computer or Windows Explorer, right click the drive
you want to share, pick "sharing", and set them up to share files and
folders.
I'm assuming both computers are XP. If they aren't, then the older versions
of Windows have a different place to set this up.

 
> Can anyone recommend a site that could help me with this problem? I've
> been to the typical ones, but they can't offer me anything "this
> easy". Everyone else's problems are much more in depth and not as
> simple as mine.
     http://www.wown.info/j_helmig/
 
> Please help, I have the weekend off and I would like to get it done
> this weekend. :-)
    Good luck! 

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