Connecting two home computers to work in tandem?

Connecting two computers with two printers to share everything.

By that I mean need to use each others printer and also be able to bring up emails/documents/photos etc from either computer. We run XP.

Both are connected through the same cable modem.

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Hi

What you need is simply creating a small home network.

Windows XP provides an easy-to-use solution to do so.

Go to the My Network Places. On the right panel you will find a link to do so.

Find out more at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using...

Connecting two home computers to work in tandem?anti virus protection

well.. emails might be trickier, unless you both have the same email program, and can use only one computer for the data... but I don't know what email program you use...

If you're on the same cable modem, you're most of the way done, you're already on the same network. right click my computer, go to properties and check the computer name and workgroup... just make sure the workgroup names match.

From there, on either computer, just right click the printers and directories you wish you share, and to go sharing and security... from there just enable it, and choose whether or not to allow the other computer to modify (add, delete, change) the files in that specific directory... and you're set.

to access the shares, you can go into "my network places" into the network and workgroup, and the other computer name. Everything you've shared to that point should be listed in there.

I believe you should also be able to to go start, run and type

\\computername\

which will open the shares as well, of course, adjusting "computername" to the name on the properties page from above...