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Zack
March 3rd, 2002, 08:37 PM
Muahahahaha!!!

You guys kept telling me I wouldn't get it right on the first try, and someone mentioned how XP's networking wizard sucked. But it's not true!!! Using the wizard I got everything set up between my two computers on the first try and everything works great! From printers to file sharing to Doom!

I'm in HEAVEN!!1
Monkey
March 3rd, 2002, 10:30 PM
Okay, for ONE, I never said you wouldn't get it your first try. If all you're doing is connecting two computers via Cat-5 or USB, it's VERY EASY! Networking becomes complicated when you want to do somthing like play a DOS IPX game and your protocals aren't set up to do it, or when you're setting up permission rights to different computers on the multi-computered network. You might think you're networking balls have dropped, but I garuntee you you'll be whining for help when your fist problem arises.

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DarkWolf
March 4th, 2002, 07:40 AM
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Let me guess, you're using the same OS on both machines?

I agree with Monkey, something will pop up that will make things difficult.

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Rellik_jmd
March 4th, 2002, 04:04 PM
95 and 98 seem to like each other just fine.

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Zack
March 4th, 2002, 04:57 PM
Monkey says he's just being a goofnut. I am using a good ole set of Ethernet cards, not USB or anything else, and I hooked up the computers with a crossover cable. Everything compatible with XP works fine, and yes I do have XP installed on both systems.
DarkWolf
March 5th, 2002, 05:02 PM
XP and ME (possibly 2k) work fine with each other, and 98/95 work with each other. Okay, it's possible to go between XP/ME and 98/95, but it's more difficult. And somethings don't work either, like the "built-in" internet connection sharing, and you can't search for a computer unless you have mapped a network drive to that particular machine.

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