When I opened the message, I found that Slattery, Tim - BLS had written:
> Essentially, that's what you're doing. Each computer on your home
> network is assigned an IP address by the DHCP server in your router.
> It's an address that can't be routed on the public internet, but your
> router will know what to do with it. When one of your machines sends a
> message to another, it uses that machine's IP address, and your router
> sends the packets to the correct machine. This is the *exact same*
> process that packets on the public internet go through.
> So the very first step in establishing your home net, is for each
> computer in it to be assigned an IP address when it connects.
Ah so!!
Someone thought that Network Magic 3.0 had a problem (or at least for
him) and had reverted to 2.1 which, he said, worked flawlessly.
Network Magic aside, though, I'm still confused about some things I have
been told.
Mainly that the root drive cannot be shared.
As long as I have had a network set up, I have been able to view, use and
change everything on the root drive of a networked computer.
Currently, I have Network Magic un-installed and am using Windows.
>From DAD I can see and access EVERYTHING on MOMs computer.
The root drive is visible and usable just as shared documents is.
Same thing from LAPTOP.
Basically, my only problem is this:
LAPTOP cannot be accessed by either of the other two computers.
So, then, Tim, I will check into the DHCP assignment you mentioned (as
soon as I figure how <smile>. Maybe that is the culprit!!
Regards,
Jim
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