home network

i am a total novice and have an xp and me in my home. we
ause cable. how can i start to network these systems
together? thanks

You should check to see if your ISP gave you just a cable modem or a cable
modem/router (in which case you are ready to go).

Once you have the router, you can connect the inbound cable stream to the
WAN port of the router and then from the router, you can connect to the pc's
in question. Most routers are fairly easy to configure.

"jeff" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> i am a total novice and have an xp and me in my home. we
> ause cable. how can i start to network these systems
> together? thanks

You should check to see if your ISP gave you just a cable modem or a cable
modem/router (in which case you are ready to go).

Once you have the router, you can connect the inbound cable stream to the
WAN port of the router and then from the router, you can connect to the pc's
in question. Most routers are fairly easy to configure.

"jeff" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> i am a total novice and have an xp and me in my home. we
> ause cable. how can i start to network these systems
> together? thanks

>-----Original Message-----
>You should check to see if your ISP gave you just a
cable modem or a cable
>modem/router (in which case you are ready to go).
>
>Once you have the router, you can connect the inbound
cable stream to the
>WAN port of the router and then from the router, you can
connect to the pc's
>in question. Most routers are fairly easy to configure.
>
>"jeff" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:1b5e601c44fe1$e9250590$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> i am a total novice and have an xp and me in my home.
we
>> ause cable. how can i start to network these systems
>> together? thanks
>
>
>.
>i do have the cable and router and that is taken care
of. i ran the network wizard. how can i view outlook on
the other network? thnaks

>i do have the cable and router and that is taken care
> of. i ran the network wizard. how can i view outlook on
> the other network? thnaks

First, you need to verify that the 2 machines can, in fact, see each other.
When you open My Network Places, do you see the other computer in the
Workgroup? Can you access it?

Outlook stores all of its data in a file usually called "Outlook.pst". You
can move this file to a location that both computers can "see" and tell each
copy of Outlook that this is the Outlook Data File you wish to use. MS
recommends against this, but for just 2 computers, it should not be a
problem.