-> CH>It's not rocket science. Do you know what interupts your NIC cards are 
-> CH>so, get into your Windows 95 control panel  setup, and add a n 
-> CH>adapter, use Microsoft Client with NETBUI protocal, use the workgroup n 
-> CH>WORKGROUP on both computers. In WFWG 3.11, if you are pretty knowledgea 
-> CH>about computers just get run Network from Control panel or run Windows 
-> CH>from Main, pull down the menu, click on NETWORK setup, and it will walk 
-> CH>right through the the setup in trained chimpanzee mode. If you don't ha 
-> CH>Network setup in WFWG 3.11, you don't have WFWG 3.11, you only have Win 
  
-> Yea ... I'm quite familiar with win95's networking deal - using that 
-> between two win95-ers, but I'm not so familiar with wfwg3.11. As to 
-> using NetBEUI, I know how that works, but there's one major problem with 
-> that - it's not IPX or SPX. Most applications (games?) won't work over 
-> netBEUI - this I know from experience. Despite your belittling tone, I 
-> thank you - 
 
 
Hey, it was a bit audacious of you to ask for a -detailed- step by step
procedure for setting up a network with Windows. That could of taken 50 
ages.
I'm not the only one that read your initial message and told you to consider
going and buying a book. Hard to tell where to start with an inital message
like that. Sorry you took it as belittlement. A lot of people that has used
a computer for more than a month consider themselves quite knowledgeable at
them and still should go buy the book. Hard to discern what "knowledgeable"
means in the context you used it to describe your computer skills. 
 
 
WFWG is easy. Honest. Just go to Main and run Windows Setup and pull down
the menus to get to network setup -or- go to the Network group and run
network setup from there. It is step by step. You network cards should of 
ome
with an IPX driver for them. All you have to do is load that in your
autoexec.bat file in the DOS/Win16 computer and then from Windows Network 
setup, setup
your WFWG network. I'd use Netbuie along with IPX on both computers until
you get it debugged. Some of the distribution disks that come with some
network card's IPX can be tricky and/or faulty. Nothing to Netbuie to screw 
and
that will test your hardware setup. You can remove it once you get 
networked"
if you want (but not required). 
 
I don't know if there is a WFWG protocal for IPX, but you can get a TCP/IP
protocal driver for Windows for Workgroups from Microsoft Download as more
and more game are going to TCP/IP than IPX anymore. You can run multiple
protocols. Netblooie, IPX and TCP/IP can all be run on the same NIC at the 
same
time from W95 or WFWG.(get TCP/IP for WFWG at msdownload --
FTP.MICROSOFT.COM). I have it somewhere in my archives and I could email it 
to you, but it
would be more reliable and you'd probably be better getting it from MS
Download. Never seen an IPX driver for WFWG there, but you should be able to 
use
the one that came with your NIC card. It will probably be in the novell
directory (Probably Novell or netware 3.12 directory). Default name is 
sually
IPX.COM or IPX.EXE but it could be something like IPXDE220.COM (Dlink DE-220
IPX driver). If all you are looking to do is run DOS games, then you don't
even need to load Windows. Just boot DOS and load the IPX.COM driver for your
network card (it is network card specific-so you gotta get it from your
distribution disks or your NIC mfg's web site). Even though the IPX driver is
typically in the netware directorys on the NIC card's distribution disks, by
itself it's a universal protocal and doesn't have to be used with a novell
server. 
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