WindowsXP and two network cards

[MikeCh]

Tonight I installed a second network card in my computer. My parents have their computers hidden behind a hardware firewall. The firewall/router is connected to the same hub I'm connected to. The result has always been that while we can both use the DSL modem, I couldn't connect to their files/printers and vice versa. So, I installed a second network card, in order to connect it to the DHCP-enabled router and connect to theirs.

The card has it's own connection listed under View Network Connections, and I'm not sure how to make sure that one card is specified for the direct connection to the hub and the other to the firewalled LAN on the router. I use a lot of programs which b0rk from behind a firewall. I've never hooked up to a LAN except my DSL modem on XP before and it seems like they've changed the entire networking interface around from past versions.

Can anyone give me some steps to connect to their Win9x workgroup?

 

[corkyg]

Well, the brute force method should work in this case. On your XP CD is a folder \VALUEADD. In that folder is \MSFT, in in turne.\NET, and then NETBEUI.

If you manually install NetBEUI, you should be able to crack your way back to your old network on that NIC. Here's the procedure: Copy nbf.sys to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32. Then copy netnbf.inf to C:\WINDOWS\INF. Having done that, . . .

In XP Network Connections, right click to open properties and get the old protocol installation table and menu. Hit the INSTALL button and add the NetBEUI protocol. It will pick it right up, and you can then link that 2nd NIC using it.