home network

[jeff]

i am a total novice and have an xp and me in my home. we
ause cable. how can i start to network these systems
together? thanks

 

[Scott M.]

You should check to see if your ISP gave you just a cable modem or a cable
modem/router (in which case you are ready to go).

Once you have the router, you can connect the inbound cable stream to the
WAN port of the router and then from the router, you can connect to the pc's
in question. Most routers are fairly easy to configure.

 

[Scott M.]

You should check to see if your ISP gave you just a cable modem or a cable
modem/router (in which case you are ready to go).

Once you have the router, you can connect the inbound cable stream to the
WAN port of the router and then from the router, you can connect to the pc's
in question. Most routers are fairly easy to configure.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
You should check to see if your ISP gave you just a cable modem or a cable
modem/router (in which case you are ready to go).

Once you have the router, you can connect the inbound cable stream to the
WAN port of the router and then from the router, you can connect to the pc's
in question. Most routers are fairly easy to configure.




.
i do have the cable and router and that is taken care

of. i ran the network wizard. how can i view outlook on
the other network? thnaks

 

[Scott M.]

i do have the cable and router and that is taken care

of. i ran the network wizard. how can i view outlook on
the other network? thnaks

First, you need to verify that the 2 machines can, in fact, see each other.
When you open My Network Places, do you see the other computer in the
Workgroup? Can you access it?

Outlook stores all of its data in a file usually called "Outlook.pst". You
can move this file to a location that both computers can "see" and tell each
copy of Outlook that this is the Outlook Data File you wish to use. MS
recommends against this, but for just 2 computers, it should not be a
problem.