Help - Simple Networking at home

[Okie Noah]

Is there any easy way to connect, two PCs running
WinXP Pro, for file transfers, and sharing Internet,
along with sharing a local printer? In other words,
networking and sharing internet at home?

I have acquired couple of Home Free Phone Line
networking cards, and also have a DSL connection at
home, plugged in to one PC thru Ethernet card.

Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

Okie Noah
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Guest]

You appear to have all you need.

Just plug in one of the Home Free Phone Line networking cards into each PC
and run a connection between them.

One the pC that has the DSL connection, run Network Setup Wizard. Then do
the same on the other.

The Wizard will ask all the questions, just give it the correct answer and
all will be fine.

 

[Okie Noah]

As suggested, with the Network Wizard running on both the PCs,
I was able to make the networking OK for file transfer, and printer sharing,
but I can't get the Internet Sharing work. The entry home server does get
the Internet, but the second PC does not. Both the PCs have the
following running:-

1) Client for Microsoft Networks
2) File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks
3) QoS Packet Scheduler
4) Internet Protocol [TCP/IP]

What are the changes do I need to make, for Internet sharing?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Okie Noah
(e-mail address removed)

P.S. When Win98SE was being used at the entry home server, and
the second PC running WinXP Pro, the Internet sharing behaves OK,
along with file transfer and printer sharing using the same network cards.

 

[Okie Noah]

There were two Firewall running on our Home Server, one is ZoneAlarm Pro,
and the other was WinXP Pro's built in firewall. As soon as I removed
the check mark from internal firewall, and made ZoneAlarm as a pass through,
Internet Sharing is working.

Explorer 6 works fairly fast at the WinXP Pro home server, but the second
PC internet is very slow. Our old Win98SE as a server does lts the second
PC user connection work fast.

Any suggestions, how to make WinXP Pro home server behave fast to
pass through ....