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networking windows xp laptop and desktop
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i have a windows xp laptop connected to DSL modem/router I would like to add a windows xp desktop to share resources What is the best way to go about doing this and how? I was thinking of linking the desktop and laptop using a switch or hub and then connecting the hub to the router thanks Don |
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On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:02 -0700, Don wrote: I was thinking of linking the desktop and laptop using a switch or hub and then connecting the hub to the router Yes that's the best way to do it. Most modem/routers will have a built in switch so check to see if you have any spare ethernet ports on your existing router before you splash out on a new switch. Jim. |
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On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:02 -0700, Don wrote: I was thinking of linking the desktop and laptop using a switch or hub and then connecting the hub to the router Yes that's the best way to do it. Most modem/routers will have a built in switch so check to see if you have any spare ethernet ports on your existing router before you splash out on a new switch. Jim. |
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Hi Jim
thanks for your reply What if i only want internet access on the laptop only but still wish to link the laptop and desktop? In other words i only want internet access on one machine? thanks Dom "James Egan" wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:02 -0700, Don wrote: I was thinking of linking the desktop and laptop using a switch or hub and then connecting the hub to the router Yes that's the best way to do it. Most modem/routers will have a built in switch so check to see if you have any spare ethernet ports on your existing router before you splash out on a new switch. Jim. |
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Hi Jim thanks for your reply What if i only want internet access on the laptop only but still wish to link the laptop and desktop? In other words i only want internet access on one machine? thanks Dom "James Egan" wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:02 -0700, Don wrote: I was thinking of linking the desktop and laptop using a switch or hub and then connecting the hub to the router Yes that's the best way to do it. Most modem/routers will have a built in switch so check to see if you have any spare ethernet ports on your existing router before you splash out on a new switch. Jim. |
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Don wrote:
Hi Jim thanks for your reply What if i only want internet access on the laptop only but still wish to link the laptop and desktop? In other words i only want internet access on one machine? thanks Dom "James Egan" wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:02 -0700, Don wrote: I was thinking of linking the desktop and laptop using a switch or hub and then connecting the hub to the router Yes that's the best way to do it. Most modem/routers will have a built in switch so check to see if you have any spare ethernet ports on your existing router before you splash out on a new switch. Jim. There are several ways to accomplish this. How you go about it depends in part on why you don't want to let one box have Internet access. The most secure way of limiting Internet access is by properly configuring your router. What make/model do you have? -- Lem -- MS-MVP Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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Don wrote:
Hi Jim thanks for your reply What if i only want internet access on the laptop only but still wish to link the laptop and desktop? In other words i only want internet access on one machine? thanks Dom "James Egan" wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:02 -0700, Don wrote: I was thinking of linking the desktop and laptop using a switch or hub and then connecting the hub to the router Yes that's the best way to do it. Most modem/routers will have a built in switch so check to see if you have any spare ethernet ports on your existing router before you splash out on a new switch. Jim. There are several ways to accomplish this. How you go about it depends in part on why you don't want to let one box have Internet access. The most secure way of limiting Internet access is by properly configuring your router. What make/model do you have? -- Lem -- MS-MVP Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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Hi Lem
it is a netcomm nb6plus4 thanks Don "Lem" wrote: Don wrote: Hi Jim thanks for your reply What if i only want internet access on the laptop only but still wish to link the laptop and desktop? In other words i only want internet access on one machine? thanks Dom "James Egan" wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:02 -0700, Don wrote: I was thinking of linking the desktop and laptop using a switch or hub and then connecting the hub to the router Yes that's the best way to do it. Most modem/routers will have a built in switch so check to see if you have any spare ethernet ports on your existing router before you splash out on a new switch. Jim. There are several ways to accomplish this. How you go about it depends in part on why you don't want to let one box have Internet access. The most secure way of limiting Internet access is by properly configuring your router. What make/model do you have? -- Lem -- MS-MVP Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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it is a netcomm nb6plus4 thanks Don "Lem" wrote: Don wrote: Hi Jim thanks for your reply What if i only want internet access on the laptop only but still wish to link the laptop and desktop? In other words i only want internet access on one machine? thanks Dom "James Egan" wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:02 -0700, Don wrote: I was thinking of linking the desktop and laptop using a switch or hub and then connecting the hub to the router Yes that's the best way to do it. Most modem/routers will have a built in switch so check to see if you have any spare ethernet ports on your existing router before you splash out on a new switch. Jim. There are several ways to accomplish this. How you go about it depends in part on why you don't want to let one box have Internet access. The most secure way of limiting Internet access is by properly configuring your router. What make/model do you have? -- Lem -- MS-MVP Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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Don wrote:
Hi Lem it is a netcomm nb6plus4 thanks Don "Lem" wrote: Don wrote: Hi Jim thanks for your reply What if i only want internet access on the laptop only but still wish to link the laptop and desktop? In other words i only want internet access on one machine? thanks Dom "James Egan" wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:02 -0700, Don wrote: I was thinking of linking the desktop and laptop using a switch or hub and then connecting the hub to the router Yes that's the best way to do it. Most modem/routers will have a built in switch so check to see if you have any spare ethernet ports on your existing router before you splash out on a new switch. Jim. There are several ways to accomplish this. How you go about it depends in part on why you don't want to let one box have Internet access. The most secure way of limiting Internet access is by properly configuring your router. What make/model do you have? -- Lem -- MS-MVP Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html The Netcomm nb6plus4 provides a great many configuration options. For this reason, it is perhaps not as easy to configure to do what you want as some other routers. Nevertheless, it can be done. The first thing to do is to download the User Guide from http://www.netcomm.com.au/products/a...dband/nb6plus4 You will need to access the router's web based configuration utility. See p. 46 of the manual. Almost certainly, your router is already configured to have its DHCP server on, in order to automatically assign IP addresses to your computers (see pp 52-53). You'll have to change this slightly. On the computer you want to block, open a Command Prompt window (StartAll ProgramsAccessoriesCommand Prompt) and type ipconfig /all [press Enter] Among the information that is returned, you'll see something like: Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-07-E6-E4-0A-47 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 "Dhcp Enabled" means that the computer has been configured to accept an IP address assigned by the router. This is the Windows default. Although on a small home network the same computer almost always receives the same IP address from the router, in general, this is not guaranteed, particularly if all of the computers are frequently turned off for long periods. Your router, however, does have the ability to always assign the same IP address to a particular computer. See pp. 66-67. You need to do this for the computer you want to block. In order to use this feature, you need to know the "MAC Address" of the computer (actually, its network interface card). This is shown in the above example as "Physical Address." When you use it to create a "Reserved IP address," replace the dashes with colons, e.g., 00:07:E6:E4:0A:47 You can set the reserved IP address to be the same as the one that had been automatically assigned to that computer. Now that there is an IP address that is guaranteed to be assigned to the computer you want to block, you can configure the router's firewall to block Internet access for that computer. See pp. 91-94. Create two filtering rules, one inbound and one outbound. Deny ALL protocols. For the inbound rule, use ALL as the source IP address and SINGLE as the destination IP address. Enter the IP address that you reserved for the blocked computer. Use 0 to 65535 for port range. For the outbound rule, source is the SINGLE reserved IP address and destination is ALL. After you APPLY the rules you created, test the blocked computer. -- Lem -- MS-MVP Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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Don wrote:
Hi Lem it is a netcomm nb6plus4 thanks Don "Lem" wrote: Don wrote: Hi Jim thanks for your reply What if i only want internet access on the laptop only but still wish to link the laptop and desktop? In other words i only want internet access on one machine? thanks Dom "James Egan" wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:02 -0700, Don wrote: I was thinking of linking the desktop and laptop using a switch or hub and then connecting the hub to the router Yes that's the best way to do it. Most modem/routers will have a built in switch so check to see if you have any spare ethernet ports on your existing router before you splash out on a new switch. Jim. There are several ways to accomplish this. How you go about it depends in part on why you don't want to let one box have Internet access. The most secure way of limiting Internet access is by properly configuring your router. What make/model do you have? -- Lem -- MS-MVP Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html The Netcomm nb6plus4 provides a great many configuration options. For this reason, it is perhaps not as easy to configure to do what you want as some other routers. Nevertheless, it can be done. The first thing to do is to download the User Guide from http://www.netcomm.com.au/products/a...dband/nb6plus4 You will need to access the router's web based configuration utility. See p. 46 of the manual. Almost certainly, your router is already configured to have its DHCP server on, in order to automatically assign IP addresses to your computers (see pp 52-53). You'll have to change this slightly. On the computer you want to block, open a Command Prompt window (StartAll ProgramsAccessoriesCommand Prompt) and type ipconfig /all [press Enter] Among the information that is returned, you'll see something like: Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-07-E6-E4-0A-47 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 "Dhcp Enabled" means that the computer has been configured to accept an IP address assigned by the router. This is the Windows default. Although on a small home network the same computer almost always receives the same IP address from the router, in general, this is not guaranteed, particularly if all of the computers are frequently turned off for long periods. Your router, however, does have the ability to always assign the same IP address to a particular computer. See pp. 66-67. You need to do this for the computer you want to block. In order to use this feature, you need to know the "MAC Address" of the computer (actually, its network interface card). This is shown in the above example as "Physical Address." When you use it to create a "Reserved IP address," replace the dashes with colons, e.g., 00:07:E6:E4:0A:47 You can set the reserved IP address to be the same as the one that had been automatically assigned to that computer. Now that there is an IP address that is guaranteed to be assigned to the computer you want to block, you can configure the router's firewall to block Internet access for that computer. See pp. 91-94. Create two filtering rules, one inbound and one outbound. Deny ALL protocols. For the inbound rule, use ALL as the source IP address and SINGLE as the destination IP address. Enter the IP address that you reserved for the blocked computer. Use 0 to 65535 for port range. For the outbound rule, source is the SINGLE reserved IP address and destination is ALL. After you APPLY the rules you created, test the blocked computer. -- Lem -- MS-MVP Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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