How do you set up a wireless home network and share computers between the parents but not the children?

Danyell Rowback: well if you have cable internet (not dial up) then you can buy a wireless adapter and follow directions that come with the adapter. You could probably get one from wal-mart or any computer store.

Donnell Mollo: enable file and print sharing on the computer you want to share, then right click the folder and setup permissions. Additionally, your children should each have their own "LIMITED" user account (not administrator) on their machine, then you can DENY access to any local OR remote folders based on that.here's a quick example:right click the folder you want to sharehit propertiesclick the sharing tabclick theradio button to enable sharinggive it a nameclick the permissions tabadd your account to the list, give it full accessremove the "everyone" accountadd your other parent's accounts if you want.additionally:you could right click 'my computer'goto managego to manage users/groupsadd a group called parentsadd a group called childrenadd the parent! s to the parents groupadd the children to the children groupmanipulate security using the groups instead of individual accounts (easier if you have a lot of kids)you might check out this site:http://parents.berkeley.edu/advice/teens/computer....seems like a lot of good advice on there and less 'technical' than i would be....Show more

Lorine Helwick: You need to enable file and print sharing in Windows for network sharing. To enable 'File and Printer Sharing' in Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)1. Open Windows Firewall2. Click the Exceptions tab3. Select 'File and Printer Sharing'4. Click 'OK' to confirm.See this link for networking basicshttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networkin...For the children, I suggest that you just do not allow file and print sharing on their machine and use something like netnanny for safer online browsing....Show more

Marion Wieboldt: Go with jhered's answer. Other info given will just confuse the issue. If you have a wireless ro! uter it will configure all the tcp/ip settings for you. Indivi! dual passwords take care of the security.

Lia Argall: This will be a very nice set up. What I would do is that I would use one Laptop/PC as the DHCP/DNS server. The DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) allows you to give IP addresses to computers in the network dynamically. DNS server allows name conversions from IP to NAME and vice versa.So once you set up DHCP/DNS server (using Windows 2003 Server preferrably) on one of the PCs, you can connect one router to that computer. The router will allow other computres to be connected to that computer. Once that is done you will be able to connected all computers with others.That takes about hundreds of hours to describe here so I think your best bet is to read a lot about this subject in the Internet and preferably in CISCO's website.P.S: This is my 100th post :PGood luck....Show more