Hello everyone! I have a simple two computer network at home and access the internet through a netgear FVS318 router/firewall and motorola cable modem. I only have tcp/ip enabled and use the router to share the internet. I have netbios turned off(not bound) and use zonealarm pro and norton security suite. I am running Windows XP Pro and have disabled all services that I don't use and use the windows firewall. Since I bought the router, zonealarm and nortorn have both given few if any alarms, mostyly now just if its ok for a new program to talk so I'm comfortable that I'm safer than before. The router logs show tons of hits that are now dropped. I've visited just about every site that provide security scans, I am showing stealth or no open ports and no exploits. Now is the question. I want to network the two computers and allow all shares, printers, scanner, hard-drives and cd's, A drives... everything. My thoughts are to run a seperate NIC in each computer and use a switch I already have and start a new network seperate from the internet. I don't want to password anything as my wife calls my name every five seconds for help. Is this safe(reasonable) or am I asking for trouble. I want unlimited access between the two computers. Thanks, sorry so long winded.