Help I'm A Home Networking Newbie

[mykel]

Can someone tell me how to set up my Outlook Express ( on a 2 comp LAN ), internet browser
(modem sharing for 2 comps) and setting my LAN on a multiplayer games like Broodwar and Diablo?? Step by step please.. I got the two comps connected to each other ( printer and file sharing ) working properly,it's just that I don't know how to set up my mail server ( on a network ) and my games.. Please help.. Thanks..

[bobcat]

Assuming you installed the IPX protocol, your games should work fine. Just choose, multiplayer, IPX protocol. Then create the game on one machine and have your other machine join that game.

To test you IPX protocol, open an MSDOS window and type "net diag". It will ask you what protocol, select IPX. It will say something like "Dont see an IPX server out there, do you want to make this machine an IPX server" Say yes. Then on you other machine type "net diag", select IPX. If it sees the server out there it will report that it connected. If it does not it will prompt you to do what you did with the server.

Sorry, did the outlook thing ages ago, and don't remeber http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif