NETWROKING - I have a break through - but I don't know what it means

[KatyMac]

I have to

"To make sure that home or small office networking runs correctly, designate a computer using Windows XP as the host computer. Designate all other computers in your home or small office network as clients. Run the Windows XP Network Setup Wizard on the host computer first, then on each client computer."

Do what??

I have a virtual Private network that won't connect now

Isn't life exciting

Just a thought, do both systems have network ports - so you can create a Wired network?

Is your TCP/IP, NetBIOS, Client for Microsoft Networks, QoS Packet Scheduler set up on each machine? I think you need all 4 of these Services running on each machine. See the guides below for info.
Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2
See if either of those help at all.
Tutorial 3 - Microsoft

I made it work

I downloaded networkmagic (at 1:30 this am)& it all works brilliantly

Great to hear. Was it just the Free Version of Network Magic that you used?
Was it easy to get working once you had that?

Yes - freebie (which apparently I can continue to use - so I'm not quite sure why I should pay )

VERY EVRY easy - makes the last week look completely pointless

Looks like you can keep using it, but can't add more devices after the initial 7-day period.
If you find that you need to make changes after 7-days, then at $30, it's probably worth the price, given the amount of hassle you've had over the past week (weeks?)

Yes but it's all on my network places too (I did it manually) & the main problem was that the second computer needed to be attached manully to the ROUTER with a cable (not the 2 computers to each other)
Then once it was set up you just disconnected them

Oh, you were connecting the computers to each other, not via the router. Doh... that would be a problem!

Well you never said