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Ken
I have a desktop running Win XP Home, and my wife has a
laptop running ME. I tried to network the two using a
router, following all of the instructions from XP for
creating a home network, but was never able to make any
connection. I was using a borrowed, known-good router,
and concluded after some research that it was a basic
incompatability between the 2 OS's. The only way I was
able to make the connection was after I found a tip in PC
Magazine. I installed NetBUI, which is no longer part of
XP, but could still be installed. I now use a simple hub
instead of a router and can share access to the printer
and drives on both machines.
When we installed DSL on the desktop, I went through it
all again with the same results. After immobilizing the
desktop several times, and losing the DSL connection
altogether, I swore off trying again for a long time.
The result is that we are not able to access the internet
through the DSL connection from the laptop. (As a side
note, whenever the main machine connects to the DSL, the
connection manager gives a message that there is a TCP/IP
Error, but everything still seems to work.)
I have considered upgrading to XP Pro, but when
attemtping to do so I got a message that NetBUI is no
longer available in XP Pro, so I stopped.
Does anyone have a suggestion for how to make this work
and be able to use a router so both machines can get an
internet connection through the DSL modem? I will
entertain suggestions, as long as it does nto
laptop running ME. I tried to network the two using a
router, following all of the instructions from XP for
creating a home network, but was never able to make any
connection. I was using a borrowed, known-good router,
and concluded after some research that it was a basic
incompatability between the 2 OS's. The only way I was
able to make the connection was after I found a tip in PC
Magazine. I installed NetBUI, which is no longer part of
XP, but could still be installed. I now use a simple hub
instead of a router and can share access to the printer
and drives on both machines.
When we installed DSL on the desktop, I went through it
all again with the same results. After immobilizing the
desktop several times, and losing the DSL connection
altogether, I swore off trying again for a long time.
The result is that we are not able to access the internet
through the DSL connection from the laptop. (As a side
note, whenever the main machine connects to the DSL, the
connection manager gives a message that there is a TCP/IP
Error, but everything still seems to work.)
I have considered upgrading to XP Pro, but when
attemtping to do so I got a message that NetBUI is no
longer available in XP Pro, so I stopped.
Does anyone have a suggestion for how to make this work
and be able to use a router so both machines can get an
internet connection through the DSL modem? I will
entertain suggestions, as long as it does nto