I hope someone can help, I've a four pc's at home that I want to network, two machines with 98se, one with xp home, and the final one with Xp Pro Sp1, along with a 8 port ethernet switch, and a (NIC) ADSL connection. I currently have the xp pro box with 2 nics one for adsl, and xp home connected via the other. I need to setup the xp pro box as the server connecting all the other machines through the router, primarily for network rendering (cinema 4d), but also for internet sharing and file sharing, and looking at a intranet for the future. I can't afford the server edition of windows, as I've spent enough already, can anyone advise or help setting up a network with the exsisting setup... Not sure on how the switch fits in, i.e. do I assign an ip address to that, or.... well I'm a designer not a network person.... Help much needed.... thanks
