One last wireless question

[steeser]

Last night I set up my house with a wireless router (Netgear 54 Mbps). Now I have my laptop setup wireless, and my desktop is plugged directly into the router.

Now I need to create a network to share files back and forth. The instructions are not making it clear to me what I need to do. Do I need to purchase a network card for my desktop? (As far as I know, I don't have one) Then is it easy?

Any help would be appreciated...at least the internet and poker part of it is setup.

[mistrpug]

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my desktop is plugged directly into the router.

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Do I need to purchase a network card for my desktop?

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If your desktop is already plugged into the router, than you already have a network card for your desktop...

As far setting up file sharing and such, you need to give more info. What Operating Systems are you using?

[steeser]

Ok, I wasn't sure if the internet connection to the router was good for file sharing as well for my desktop.

The desktop uses Windows 2000 and the notebook has Windows XP.

[mistrpug]

Go here. (http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/net.asp)

That's the page I used when setting up my network. You should find everything you need there.

You should know that XP makes the whole thing ass easy. I don't know about 2000 but other older OSs I've used have given me a little trouble setting stuff up. Good luck.

[Smokey98]

You will need to add the desktop to the workgroup or domain if you have one. That option will depend on which OS you are using.