Well I’ve searched and searched the internet but I cannot find any useful help, so I’ve come here. I have two networks, one wireless and one wired. The wireless network has the internet connection while the wired just has 2 computers. I’d really like to keep the two networks separate but I need the files on one network and the internet on the other and lucky me I have 2 network cards on the computer I want to use, but it isn’t working out. When I have the wired disabled I get internet just fine; when I have both enabled I get the files on the computers just fine, but no internet. It appears to be searching the wired network for a connection. I’ve played with IP ranges, subnet masks, setting the order of the cards… despite being able to build a computer from scratch; I just honestly don’t know that much about networks despite every desire to learn. All the computers are running XP Home. Anyone know how I can make this work?

 

Unless I'm misreading your question I'm pretty sure that you can only be on one network at a time, so you will only be able to log on to one or the other at a time but not both. But then again I'm in the same boat as you I know a great deal about computers but networks just boggle my mind so I could be totally wrong.

 

the easiest thing, reconfigure the network to have working internet and the computers (with files) you want on the same network.

 

What you want SHOULD be doable. I believe that I've seen it in an XP book, but I can't remember which one. If I understand correctly, you want internet on one computer and a local net connecting that computer to some others.
(with no internet).

You might try your local library for XP books. I'm sure that I saw that configuration described, but I did not note all of the magic incantations that you had to perform. The boook MIGHT have been "XP in a nutshell" or even
"XP for Dummies" .

Net setup is easier these days then when you had to do it in DOS, but it can still be strange.

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