Jake said:
Hi Bob,
No, my PCs are not talking to each other.? I don't believe I have any problems other than myself ;D? I don't know how to make them connect to each other. I suspect I need to do something from the control panel but I'm not sure what that is.
Jake
You can purchase printer sharing hubs from CompUSA or where ever if you don't want to network similar to what Russ describes for his Apple -- but from what you describe in equipment -- and with XP making networkiing setups fairly easy, you probably would want a full fledged LAN.
If so, yes, there is a Network Connectioins icon in the Control Panel followed by a Set Up a Home or Small Office Icon that would step you through setting up the LAN. From what you say, you have the two desktops cabled to the router. I would forget about the Laptop and consentrate of the two desktops first.
One of the first questions you will be asked is how you are receiving internet -- or if all. If you have a connection directly to one machine vs. such as mine that comes from a Direcway dish into my Router, then you would want to pick the proper setup.
The router right now is just a hub that is acting like a connector of the two LAN cables coming from each desktop -- it isn't routing anything as yet.