I know nothing about routers or firewalls except what they basically do. On my home system, I have 3 Windows XP pcs and 2 printers wire connected by 2 Linksys routers to share the internet access and the printers (one router also has wireless for my daughter’s iPod access) . A friend “helper” helped me set this up several months ago and it worked fine. The second router was added so that we could add all this stuff to the “network”. It worked fine.
But I have replaced one of the pcs and my “friend” is not available to help me set it up again. I would like to request some help on configuring the built-in firewall of one or both routers to allow me to access documents on one pc with this new pc.
Both of these computers are Windows XP. One is Tablet Edition and one is Media Center Edition. The tablet is mine and I have only my Jeff login with my standard password. On the Media Center machine, which is basically my kids pc, I use a login which has a different name (my name & my wife) and that same standard password. But my kids also have their own logins. Neither of my kids use passwords for their Windows login.
The My Documents that I want to access from the tablet is under my login on the kids pc.