1st networking

[patrick]

i need to network 10 computers on my own can anyone give
me links to guide me, or can you give advice(roters, hubs
switches,modems and stuff). Not asking the impossible i
hope.
thanks

[Rajiv Sharma]

if security is the issue then you should go for domain
otherwise you can go for workgroup.
you can understand better here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299909#2

"patrick" > wrote in message
...
> i need to network 10 computers on my own can anyone give
> me links to guide me, or can you give advice(roters, hubs
> switches,modems and stuff). Not asking the impossible i
> hope.
> thanks

[NobodyMan]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:55:38 -0700, "patrick" >
wrote:

>i need to network 10 computers on my own can anyone give
>me links to guide me, or can you give advice(roters, hubs
>switches,modems and stuff). Not asking the impossible i
>hope.
>thanks

If you need advice from the ground up (and it sounds like you do), you
may be in over your head. Although what you want to do isn't hard
physically, there are many areas here that are gray. Examples:

Do you want client/server or peer-to-peer networking?
Are the 10 systems close or spread out over several rooms?
Do you need to support file/print sharing, and how do you want to do
that?
Will these systems be sharing on common link to the internet, or NO
internet connection (a closed network)?
Do you need dial-up access from the outside into this network?
How do yo want to handle e-mail within the network?

These are just a few questions to consider. Half a dozen more just
popped into my head while typing this paragraph. Although it costs,
you *may* want to consider a consultant if you really are a novice.