Re: Selecting Remote Users

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"nycnc" <nycnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:37EDD2A3-99DE-4245-A791-0CCBA3ADF174@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Good morning.

Where does the one ethernet line become two or three? Back of a computer?
A switch (networking device)?

There is one ethernet connection on the modem, which goes into the print
server. From there, one ethernet wire goes to one desktop and another
ethernet wire goes into the other desktop.



"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

nycnc wrote:
> This is the way my 2 workstations at my office are setup:
>
> 2 WINXP PRO PC's hooked up to the internet via a SURFboard® Cable
> Modem SB5101. One end of the cable is going into the modem from the
> wall and coming out the other end into a Linksys WPS54G Wireless-G
> Print Server. From there, I have one ethernet wire each going into
> either PC.


The Linksys WPS54G is *NOT* a router and the SB5101 modem only has one Ethernet port. Apparently you have not described the network accurately since it is impossible for the two PCs to be connected directly to either the print server or the modem without another device like a switch, hub or router being in between.

If you go to "Start -> Run" then type "cmd" in the window and subsequently run the "ipconfig" command from the command line on each desktop PC what IP address is reported?
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