? for home networking gurus
I believe it is possible but I want to hear from somebody who knows a little more about networking than me (I have a hard enough time keeping up with my programming knowledge to learn much about networking). Say you have two comps sharing a broadband connection through a wireless router, one is running XP the other is running Win98. Is it possible to also have these computers share files with the same setup? If yes, is it also possible to set it up so that the XP box can start applications running on the 98 box?
I'm about to replace this one I have, and would like to keep the old one and use it for 3D rendering etc... I would like to be able to network them so I can set the old one up in a remote corner and forget about it. Just use it as remote storage/workhorse when I need to do a process that will tie up my processor for a long time such as a 3D animation or high res rendering. It would also be handy to be able to launch a program (installed on the 98 machine) from my XP machine, but have it run on the 98 machine. Some of my processes may require access to the internet so they will have to share the internet connection.
If either of those answers is no, what about if they both ran XP?
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Last edited by TwistedFate; 08-09-2003 at 10:11 PM..
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