Damn networking!!!

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From: Kurt Schmidt (JvxvJvxv_at_NG_KRZNCF@QBG_PBZ*.you.must.use.reverse.of.31tor.on.it.and.then.edit.i)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:30:43 -0800

I have a very simple network -- a cable modem (Comcast) connected to a
Netgear Router FVS318. To that I have connected a Netgear WAB102 802.11ab
access point and a desktop computer. I also have a laptop computer that
connects to the access point through the 802.11a protocol using a Netgear
WAG511 wireless card. Both computers are running Windows XP Pro SP1 and
both are running a firewall -- the laptop a Norton Personal Firewall, the
desktop a Zone Alarm Pro firewall.

For years I have been trying to connect both computers so that they could
see each others selected drives or directories, and simultaneously see the
internet. I can do one or the other but not both. I am so frustrated that
I am almost ready to chuck it all out the window. No matter what I do, no
matter how may books I follow, what advice I get, just no matter what, I can
only do one or the other, but never, ever both. For God's sake, it cannot
be that difficult!!!! Well, I see a multitude of sites that offer advice on
apparently just this subject, so it probably is that difficult, but would
someone please tell me why is it so damn difficult to do that?

Or better yet, in steps simple enough for an amoeba, how to get it done.

BTW, I have decided against using NetBui (sp?) because I read in several
places that 1) XP did not support it, and 2) that it was like opening the
barn door to hackers.

Thanks!
Kurt 

-- 
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." - Maid of
Orleans -- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (November 10, 1759 - May
9, 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller

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