NT4 w/station to 2000 Pro LAN help please?

I am pretty computer illiterate, so please bear with me

I have had 2 NT4 workstation PC's networked together at home using
Netbui. One of the PC's connects to the `net via an internal PCI ISDN
card. All worked fine. I have now built a "new" PC with Windows 2000 Pro
on it. I had to install Netbui as a protocol and now it too connects fine
to the NT4 machine intend keeping. However, I belive Netbui is not the
fastest method of transferring files? Maybe I should be using this
frightening TCP/IP stuff?

Is there an idiot proof guide anywhere as to exact steps to achieve this?
I would later like to add the facility for the NT4 machine to also
connect to the `net, via the ISDN card in the 2000 machine. Will that too
be possible? For now I have an ISDN card in both and if I need the NT4
machine to connect I instigate a separate dial up.

Finally, although the very modern m/board in the 2000 machine (Asus
A7N8X) has decent on board NVidia networking support, the NT4 machine has
a 12 year old 10m/bits card with a co-ax and a network cable socket on
it. I am using the cable socket to a small hub, but am I right in
thinking I should invest in a better network card for it? What do people
recommend?


Thanks.


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Best Regards,
Chris.

Chris Wilson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed) t>...
> I am pretty computer illiterate, so please bear with me
>
> I have had 2 NT4 workstation PC's networked together at home using
> Netbui. One of the PC's connects to the `net via an internal PCI ISDN
> card. All worked fine. I have now built a "new" PC with Windows 2000 Pro
> on it. I had to install Netbui as a protocol and now it too connects fine
> to the NT4 machine intend keeping. However, I belive Netbui is not the
> fastest method of transferring files? Maybe I should be using this
> frightening TCP/IP stuff?
>
> Is there an idiot proof guide anywhere as to exact steps to achieve this?
> I would later like to add the facility for the NT4 machine to also
> connect to the `net, via the ISDN card in the 2000 machine. Will that too
> be possible? For now I have an ISDN card in both and if I need the NT4
> machine to connect I instigate a separate dial up.
>
> Finally, although the very modern m/board in the 2000 machine (Asus
> A7N8X) has decent on board NVidia networking support, the NT4 machine has
> a 12 year old 10m/bits card with a co-ax and a network cable socket on
> it. I am using the cable socket to a small hub, but am I right in
> thinking I should invest in a better network card for it? What do people
> recommend?
>
>
> Thanks.

Actually due it's it's low overhead NetBEUI is normally faster for
data transfer than TCP/IP. In practice though the transfer rate is far
more to do with your network hardware than the protocol or software.

However, if you wanted to access the Internet on all the computers you
will need to install the TCP/IP protocol on each computer.

As for your second question, there is a way to allow you to have just
one PC connected to the Internet (via ISDN) and allow the 2 other PCs
to share that connection. The technology is built into Win2000 and is
called ICS (Internet Connection Sharing).

It's not a very complex matter giving each PC an IP address and
enabling ICS but I don't really have time to describe it here.

Your last question on networking hardware, I would recommend you
replace your old network hardware (coax etc. probably 10base2) with
100BaseTX. You'll need an 8-port "network switch", 100BaseTX network
cards and Cat5 patch cables. They're not very expensive.

Thanks,

Bruce.

In article <(E-Mail Removed) >,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> Actually due it's it's low overhead NetBEUI is normally faster for
> data transfer than TCP/IP. In practice though the transfer rate is far
> more to do with your network hardware than the protocol or software.
>
> However, if you wanted to access the Internet on all the computers you
> will need to install the TCP/IP protocol on each computer.
>
> As for your second question, there is a way to allow you to have just
> one PC connected to the Internet (via ISDN) and allow the 2 other PCs
> to share that connection. The technology is built into Win2000 and is
> called ICS (Internet Connection Sharing).
>
> It's not a very complex matter giving each PC an IP address and
> enabling ICS but I don't really have time to describe it here.
>
> Your last question on networking hardware, I would recommend you
> replace your old network hardware (coax etc. probably 10base2) with
> 100BaseTX. You'll need an 8-port "network switch", 100BaseTX network
> cards and Cat5 patch cables. They're not very expensive.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce.

Thanks for a most comprehensive and helpful reply, I have bought a
100BaseTX card, and the other machine has decent on board LAN stuff. I'll
see how I get along, cheers!


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Best Regards,
Chris.

Chris,

i have been using tcp/ip at home networking windows pcs for years...
email me at (E-Mail Removed) (take out the NOSPAM) and
i'll help you out...

surprised to see you here, wassup... BaT not good enough ;-)

Dex

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 00:04:33 -0000, Chris Wilson
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I am pretty computer illiterate, so please bear with me
>
>I have had 2 NT4 workstation PC's networked together at home using
>Netbui. One of the PC's connects to the `net via an internal PCI ISDN
>card. All worked fine. I have now built a "new" PC with Windows 2000 Pro
>on it. I had to install Netbui as a protocol and now it too connects fine
>to the NT4 machine intend keeping. However, I belive Netbui is not the
>fastest method of transferring files? Maybe I should be using this
>frightening TCP/IP stuff?
>
>Is there an idiot proof guide anywhere as to exact steps to achieve this?
>I would later like to add the facility for the NT4 machine to also
>connect to the `net, via the ISDN card in the 2000 machine. Will that too
>be possible? For now I have an ISDN card in both and if I need the NT4
>machine to connect I instigate a separate dial up.
>
>Finally, although the very modern m/board in the 2000 machine (Asus
>A7N8X) has decent on board NVidia networking support, the NT4 machine has
>a 12 year old 10m/bits card with a co-ax and a network cable socket on
>it. I am using the cable socket to a small hub, but am I right in
>thinking I should invest in a better network card for it? What do people
>recommend?
>
>
>Thanks.