Begginers guide to networking tutorial

Hey everyone.   I want to set up a network with 2 Windows based machines and I was wondering if anyone knows of a good online begginers tutorial of how to do this?  Im just confused and nothing seems to work.  Thanks.

I don't know of link but tell me what you have.

Is it NICs or with "laplink-cable" ?
if NICs and just two machines and no hub
it need to be a "twisted TP cable (unless BNC cable)

Its from 2 NIC's to a Hub.  Through RJ45.

[wizbones]

Since you're using a hub you'll use two straight through patch cables. If you bypass the hub and connect the two directly you'll need a crossover cable.

What OS are you running on these boxes? And what network components do you have installed in Network Neighborhood?

Well with a little trial and error i got the actual network set up but heres the new problem.  I have the Primary machine which I access the internet from (Base) and I have the secondary machine which I want to be able to access the internet at the same time (its going to be used for a web server)(P90).  Problem.  If I access the internet on the base machine, the P90wont access until I restart.  But if I restart the P90 will access it but the Base wont.  So how do I set them up to both connect at the same time?  Thanks for all your help.  BTW Base is running Win 98 and P90 is running Win 95.

If you have a telephone modemon base machine
you could use the AnalogX proxy or Autonet on third
machine with just nic, modem and floppy.

If you have DSL to the hub one can only access on
one machine at the time
you would need 2 Nics on the base machine
One to get the DSL the other one to send it to hub
and all other machines connectyed to the hub
+ a proxy or router on base machine analogX would
work and is free
I use floppyfw http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/index.html on a third machine
have a post on this in the networking section.

Sorry ill try to describe my problem better.

Base machine - Windows 98, 1 NIC and a cable connection.

Server - Windows 95, 1 NIC and a cable connection.

Same problem as my last post but, the way the connection i set up is my cable internet modem box (the thing that changes it from coaxial cable to RJ45) goes the port 5 on my hub.  My base goes to port 4.  My server goes to port 3.

Now if only one are on at a time, they access the internet and the network fine, but I want them to be able access the net at the same time.  Thanks for all your help.

You need two NICs in your server machine
Nr.1 from cable modem
Nr.2 to hub
And a proxy  (like analogX proxy or other)

Check out wown.com
This site totally helped me out!
I also referred people to this website for network issues

[Uranium-235]

If you have windows98SE thiers some free software that comes with it called ICS. It should allow you to share the net with the other machine. but your base machin has to be on at the same time.