separate networks within one network?

[sleepyleon]

currently have a linksys router hooked up to both a wireless linksys router and a netgear hub...all of thats working fine; however, was wondering if i could set it up so that one group of computers could only access/share files within that group and have another group that would only have access to other computers of that group? i read a little about subnet masks and wondered if i could give that a try?...possible problem with that is that not all the computers i want to include within a group are hooked up to the same router? i'm really not sure how it would work. every computer at the moment is using the 255.255.255.0 default mask.

thanks in advance!

 

[JackMDS]

Welcome to the Network Forum.

If you have two Routers build one network around one Router.

Connect the second Router's WAN port to a regular port on the first Router and build a second network around the second Router.

The two Networks will be independent since there is a Router between them.

:sun:

 

[sleepyleon]

heh sounds simpler but dont think i can do it because living in a 2 story house...and ran out of ports on one floor. not sure if this is making sense heh.