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re: Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection
Sunday, June 20, 2004 at 9:52 pm
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Posted by alf (1 messages posted)


Your plan will never work unless you have XP Pro (NOT home) installed on BOTH computers. 
 End of Story.  XP Home contains absolutely no networking capability (via ethernet 
) at all.  Only Pro does.






On Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 6:46 am, Ron Chrisley wrote:
>On Wednesday, December 31, 2003 at 2:40 am, Nick wrote:
>>OK, I'm confused and getting desperate. Everything was working fine last night but
>>switching on today, when I try to View Workgroup Computers I get a message saying
>>"Mshome is not accessible. You might not have permission to use the network resource..."
>>from the laptop. Both computers are logged in to administrator accounts.
>>The desktop shows the laptop in the workgroup but truncated for sanity



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re: Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection (Ron Chrisley: Sunday, January 4, 2004 at 6:46 am)

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-Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection (Clyde Thames: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 10:01 pm)
-re: Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection (Steve: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 11:12 pm)
-re: Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection (Nick: Mon, Dec 29, 2003, 5:06 pm)
-re: Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection (Steve: Mon, Dec 29, 2003, 9:35 pm)
*re: Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection (Nick: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 9:30 am)
-re: Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection (Nick: Wed, Dec 31, 2003, 2:40 am)
-re: Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection (Ron Chrisley: Sun, Jan 4, 2004, 6:46 am)
*re: Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection (alf: Sun, Jun 20, 2004, 9:52 pm)
-re: Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection (Nick: Wed, Dec 31, 2003, 4:04 am)
-re: Connecting 2 home computers to share a single internet connection (Steve: Wed, Dec 31, 2003, 8:51 am)
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