Home Networks

[chrisbe]

I am not a network guru for starters. I have built a few home networks using
NAT and Windows 2000 Server before. Now I am in a new place and have three
computers running Windows XP. I have a cable modem hooked into a D-Link
wired and wireless router which is using NAT. In addition I have Zone Alarm
pro on each compter. I would like to share files and a printer between all
three. I used the XP Network wizard and it recommend not to set up a network
in this fashion since it would be insecure. The wizard recommend i use one
XP computer to share connections with the other. Does anyone have any
thoughts on this? I would rather not use connection sharing and I do not
want to setup a server.

Chris

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

if you have a router, setup peer to peer network should be OK.

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"chrisbe" > wrote in message
...
> I am not a network guru for starters. I have built a few home networks
using
> NAT and Windows 2000 Server before. Now I am in a new place and have three
> computers running Windows XP. I have a cable modem hooked into a D-Link
> wired and wireless router which is using NAT. In addition I have Zone
Alarm
> pro on each compter. I would like to share files and a printer between all
> three. I used the XP Network wizard and it recommend not to set up a
network
> in this fashion since it would be insecure. The wizard recommend i use one
> XP computer to share connections with the other. Does anyone have any
> thoughts on this? I would rather not use connection sharing and I do not
> want to setup a server.
>
> Chris
>
>