Server Setup & Router Cable connections?

[Alex]

I have a peer-to-peer network with 4 WIN-98 PCs. I now
bougth a WIN-XP PC and it seems that I absolutely need to
set this one up as a SERVER through which the other WIN-
98 PCs communicate, when I want to add it to my network.
In my My D-LINK (DI-604) Router's & D-LINK-Cable-Modem's
(DCM-200) Manual I don't find anything about that. And on
their website's "XP-Quick-Setup Guide" they just
explain "peer-to-peer"-connections.
Does someone know how to connect the cables for this
configuration? Or would I need a different type of
Router/Modem?
Alex

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

I have a peer-to-peer network with 4 WIN-98 PCs. I now
bougth a WIN-XP PC and it seems that I absolutely need to
set this one up as a SERVER through which the other WIN-
98 PCs communicate, when I want to add it to my network.
In my My D-LINK (DI-604) Router's & D-LINK-Cable-Modem's
(DCM-200) Manual I don't find anything about that. And on
their website's "XP-Quick-Setup Guide" they just
explain "peer-to-peer"-connections.
Does someone know how to connect the cables for this
configuration? Or would I need a different type of
Router/Modem?
Alex

Connect the WIN-XP PC to the network the same as the WIN-98 PCs. If
the router doesn't have enough ports for all of the computers, get a
network switch, connect its uplink port to one of the router's LAN
ports, and connect the remaining computer(s) to the switch.

What told you that you need to set up the WIN-XP PC as a SERVER? I'm
not sure what that would mean on a peer-to-peer network with a D-Link
router.

Run the Network Setup Wizard on the XP computer and tell the Wizard
that the computer connects to the Internet through a "residential
gateway". If the Wizard tells you to run it on the other computers,
you may ignore it -- the other computers are already set up just fine.
If you do run the Wizard on the other computers, use the "residential
gateway" option for them, too.
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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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