Best way to set up network

MrBlobby · 25 Oct 2009 at 11:52

Running WindowsXP
If I have a modem router M and computers A and B

My setup is as follows
A-M-B

however Windows says this an insecure way of sharing info between A & B and I'm finding it difficult to configure my firewall.

Is it worthwile have a NAS box (C) and having a setup like this, i.e. everything goes through the NAS box. Or am I talking arse ?

M
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C--A
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B

Beerbaron · 25 Oct 2009 at 11:55

Why would you want it all going through the NAS box?

MrBlobby · 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00

It's a modem router. I'm not sure how to allow traffic from one computer to the other whilst firewalling the internet. I'm using Kaspersky 2010 internet suite.

Beerbaron · 25 Oct 2009 at 12:08

I did a quick ninja edit

If you are sharing a large amount of files a nas box is an option but you could plug that directly in to the router

Daegan · 25 Oct 2009 at 12:21

Your first setup was fine. Anything else is down to Windows networking (somewhat dependent on the versions of Windows) and the firewall software you're running (Kaspersky).

Don't worry about a NAS unless you actually want a separate device to store data on your network. In which case you'd just plug it into the back of the switch ports on your modem/router like everything else.