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Networking Win2000 with winXP

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by cmiyoshi

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I have a router and roadrunner. What I am trying to do is be able to view and copy back and forth from either machine to the harddrives. I need to know if I need to buy a hub to do this or is there a way to be able to see both harddrives from eithermachine?

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by ann777

Does your router have ports available for both computers? If yes, then you need not purchase a hub. If your router does not have ports for computers, then you will need to connect your computers to a hub and the hub to the router.

You will also need to have the users listed in Control Panel --> Users and Passwords. If one computer is called XP1, then you need user from XP2 to be in XP1's Users and Passwords. XP2 will need the name of the XP1 user and password. You will also need to setup shared drives on both computers, then yes... it all should work fine together.

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