home network printing & file sharing questions
Since you have a router, and there should be a firewall in it, uninstall Zone Alarm. Without this firewall software, you will see that your machines will run a bit faster, have greater resources, and also be more stable.
Hi, I want to add more hard drive space but I question if adding more hardware will reduce performance of my PC So are there other ways to use multiple drives (maybe a...
You must set your hard disks to share, if you want them shared across the home network. Also, each of the machines will need the printer driver installed for the shared printer. The machine that has the printer installed, must have the printer properties set to share. The remote machine's printer properties must be set up to see the host computer's printer over the home network.
I started with a Sony DRU-500AX drive and Pinnacle Instant CD-DVD (ver 7.0), and all seemed to...
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Jerry G. =====
I just set up a two computer home network via a D-Link DI-604 router, that is also connected to my DSL modem. I am running Windows 98 SE on both machines, as well as Zone Alarm free edition. I have a couple of questions:
1. I know that I can share files and a printer, how do I go about doing this? In "Network" of Control Panel I presume...
2. Will there be any outside security concerns by opening up file sharing printing between these machines?
Howie
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