On Wednesday 18 May 2005 12:15, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > Does that mean a special two way cable, or some otherlink? > > No I don't have samba set up. I'm very unclear about any knid of > networking.
OK - the best physical way to set up a network is to use a switched hub - they are not expensive - and a NIC in each box, connected to the hub by a cat5 cable. That's easy if they are physically fairly close, though re-wiring the whole house is more problematic :-) Best of all is if you can spend a little more to buy a router that includes some hub capability. They are often described as having two or four RJ45 sockets. If you can do that you configure the router to be the gateway to the Internet, and both computers connect through that. It's easy to get this set up with the help of the list. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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