Re: Hello and Help me set up a home network of three computers please.

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Hi Steve and thanks for your reply,

I tried running the network setup wizard, (I use AVG which doesn't
seem to have a firewall and windows firewall is down) Unfortunately it
cannot complete this wizard because an error occured during the
configuration of the network on this computer. It reccomends that I
configure the network manually.

Any ideas?

Thank you for your help.


Steve Winograd [MVP] wrote:
In article <1168970691.445608.17910@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
canuhackett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi everybody,


I have already set up and am using a wireless router/gateway to
connect to the internet on all three computers. How do I configure them
to share files and printers?


Thanks

Run the Network Setup Wizard (in Start > All Programs > Accessories >
Communications) on each computer. If the Wizard detects
the router's shared Internet connection, tell it to use that.
Otherwise, tell the Wizard that the computer connects to the Internet
through a residential gateway.

Make sure that any firewall programs (Norton, McAfee, PC-cillin,
ZoneAlarm, etc) are configured to allow access by other computers on
the local area network. Note that some antivirus programs, such as
Norton Antivirus 2006, have built-in firewall functions that need to
be configured.
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