Re: Had internet connection, now lost

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From: Hans-Georg Michna (hans-georgNoEmailPlease_at_michna.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:43:17 +0200

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:57:01 -0700, Lisa F <Lisa
F@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Two computers in the house and one cable modem. The cable company told us it
>would be cheaper to buy a wireless router than get two internet accounts from
>them. Bought a Linksys wireless broadband router and a PCI adapter card.
>Internet connection bewteen the computers was fine until we tried to set up a
>network so the computers could share a printer. Ran Windows XP network
>wizard, and now the client computer has no internet connection. The network
>looks like it's set up on the host computer, but it doesn't list the client
>computer. The client computer gets an error message when I try to look at the
>network, it says I may not have access and I should speak to the server's
>administrator (isn't that me?). How do I fix this?

Lisa,

how are the computers and the router connected? Why did you have
to buy a PCI adapter card?

Hans-Georg 

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