College help?

[Dilbert135]

I'm on a lan now, for my internet. I've got a linksys router/switch and I need to make a network for my two computers behind the firewall. The problem I keep coming up to is that windows searches out beyond my firewall onto the whole lan (which has no inherent protection or security) for windows networks and then decides I can't access the ones I make because of this. Does anyone have any ideas or a way to network beyond the simple windows way? I'm using XP home on both.

[Bill in SD, CA]

You have a router and a switch?

Bill

[Dilbert135]

I have a firewall/router/4-way switch from linksys. The problem is after I 'set up my home network' in the network connections area, when I try and browse the workgroup computers or add a place from said network that I just created it says "[Workgroup name] is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you do. The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available."

[sm8000]

Have you disabled the DHCP function in your Linksys device? You may want to do that while on campus so as not to screw up the LAN. Then give the machines on your subnet static IPs.

[Dilbert135]

I disabled DHCP but I don't know how to give my machines static IPs. Does my error sound like something similar to that, and if so is there a tutorial somewhere to help me set this up?