Setting up a home network can be difficult and frustrating.  There’s a program called Network Magic that makes it easy!  I used to 
use it and it worked great.  About a year ago I quit using it because I built a Windows Home Server from an old computer.  Network 
Magic even does some things well - like file sharing for music and other things - that are a little clunky on WHS.  It costs about 
$50, but the neat thing is that you can download a free trial version and use it to see if it’ll do what you need done.



The nice thing about Network Magic is that it is pretty easy for you to configure - the kind of problems you have now.  All you need 
to do is connect your two computers with the special cable (the one with a twisted wire to connect two computer ethernet ports, a 
"patch cable"), load Network Magic and go.



http://www.purenetworks.com/

If you get fed up with setting all this up, give the free trial a shot.

Dean Kukral

PS:  I think it is actually better to set it all up yourself, if you can.  The thing is that there is a frustrating learning curve 
to climb...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Joyce E
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 5:22 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Network setup revisited


First of all, thank you everyone for the previous help!  But now I need more...  :::sigh:::

I obtained a good hub, two correct network cables, and ran the Windows XP network setup wizard on each computer.  I specified this, 
the master computer that connects to the Internet, as "Raymond's Computer." It's an eMachines running XP Pro, Version 2, SP 2; it 
has a standard modem.  The other computer is "Margaret's Computer," "Home 11," and is a Compaq also running XP Pro, Version 2, SP2; 
it does not have a modem, just a network connection.  The workgroup name is MSHOME.

For some reason though, I _still_ can't get these two computers to talk to each other! -- and can't get the secondary computer onto 
the Internet!  I tried several different things, tried three different troubleshooters, and tried plugging the network cables into 
different slots in the four-slot hub.  I am just about at my wit's end, so I'm going to drop it for the evening, and wait for your 
help -- for which I thank you again!

Joyce in SE Ohio

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