Newbie Help.

I have installed a wireless card in my desktop running Win2k, and the
same in a laptop running XP, in adhoc mode.All seems to be OK as the
laptop is reporting that the signal strength is excellent.
However I am now stuck. What do I need to-do to share files/printer &
broadband connection between the two.
Thanks in anticipation

Jon.
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jon frohmaier

"jon frohmaier" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have installed a wireless card in my desktop running Win2k, and the
> same in a laptop running XP, in adhoc mode.All seems to be OK as the
> laptop is reporting that the signal strength is excellent.
> However I am now stuck. What do I need to-do to share files/printer &
> broadband connection between the two.
> Thanks in anticipation

Run the XP network setup wizard. You can set it up manually, but it takes
longer. You need to share the connection on the desktop - not sure how to do
this in 2000, but 98se had internet connection sharing, and XP had a menu
that could be accessed by right clicking on the connection to share. Then
you need to share files and folders, again by right clicking on them and
selecting properties and sharing (or something like that). You may need to
have the guest account on XP box enabled, although I'm not sure. I only use
an XP box to access shared files on w98se, not the other way around.

Marcus

Marcus

I was just wondering are you using an access point as well, my friend is
setting his wireless network up and realised he has no access point, which
is needed for the computers to connect.

hope this helps

"jon frohmaier" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have installed a wireless card in my desktop running Win2k, and the
> same in a laptop running XP, in adhoc mode.All seems to be OK as the
> laptop is reporting that the signal strength is excellent.
> However I am now stuck. What do I need to-do to share files/printer &
> broadband connection between the two.
> Thanks in anticipation
>
> Jon.
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> Jon Frohmaier

crws <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I was just wondering are you using an access point as well, my friend is
> setting his wireless network up and realised he has no access point, which
> is needed for the computers to connect.
>
Bollocks :-)

He's using ad-hoc mode, not infrastructure mode.

jon frohmaier <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> I have installed a wireless card in my desktop running Win2k,
> and the same in a laptop running XP, in adhoc mode.All seems to
> be OK as the laptop is reporting that the signal strength is
> excellent. However I am now stuck. What do I need to-do to share
> files/printer & broadband connection between the two.
> Thanks in anticipation
>
> Jon.

Good tutorial stuff here: http://www.practicallynetworked.com/howto/

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