Area Network Amiga to W,Xp

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  After 3 years of search i finaly found one. An Ariadne 2 card. I am trying to network my Draco to the Xp box that I have here. The trouble is how to go about it.
   The Xp box is alrealdy online through an ADSL and working fine. Now i want to hook the Draco to it so that I can read the data on both machines.
    Fixing the network card in the Draco and configuring it is not the biggest problem. It is the setting up of the network that freightens me. You know those ( DCHP, PPP,POP3,MP4  & those lotto numbers 192.134.007. ....) Ping me here ping me there.
    I have read the tuitorials about Samba & understand it quite ok but that is windows 98. Anybody done it succsfully with W,Xp?
    I need to do this as I use the W,xp box to render my LightWave sequences. I am running WB 3,9 on the Draco and I have netconnect V3. I am about to purchase router hub tomorrow which I believe will sit between the incoming ADSL and the Xp box then the Draco also gose into the router hub. I maybe wrong, if so correct me. From here I will have to configure both systems to see each others drives, but how.
   Pleas help as transfering 15,000 frames from Movieshop unto a 125Mb SyQuest medium is no joke.  


boateng@wanadoo.dk

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Ilwrath
  Thanks for the inspiration. At least it has given me som boldness to tackle the situation.
  I hoped some one had such a configuration so they coul send it to me and all i had to do was to install it in the right pace/places and voila, but it seem to be the other way round.
  Although i am going to purchase the tomorrow, I may have to wait til i have completed a movie i am editing at the moment. As installing Wb 3.9 gave me a hectick BRAIN PAIN.
  Now that about the FTP sounds quite interesting. How does one go about that?

  Thanks in advance.