Guest --Ivan-- Posted September 11, 2008 Posted September 11, 2008 HI IM pretty good with computer but not the networking side of things so i have a question I just bought a new laptop which has 802.11b/g Wlan My question is how can i network the laptop with my computer using wireless??? any help is great thank you
Guest Malke Posted September 11, 2008 Posted September 11, 2008 Re: Networking Question --Ivan-- wrote: > HI > > IM pretty good with computer but not the networking side of things so i > have a question > > I just bought a new laptop which has 802.11b/g Wlan > > My question is how can i network the laptop with my computer using > wireless??? You have a wireless router, yes? If not, that's your next step. Then see the general networking steps below to set up Local Area Network file/printer sharing. The fact that one of the computers connects to the LAN wirelessly is irrelevant; it's all the same LAN. Since you forgot to mention what operating system the new laptop runs, I've included the information about Vista as well. Excellent, thorough, yet easy to understand article about File/Printer Sharing in Vista. Includes details about sharing printers as well as files and folders: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx For XP, start by running the Network Setup Wizard on all machines (see caveat in Item A below). Problems sharing files between computers on a network are generally caused by 1) a misconfigured firewall or overlooked firewall (including a stateful firewall in a VPN); or 2) inadvertently running two firewalls such as the built-in Windows Firewall and a third-party firewall; and/or 3) not having identical user accounts and passwords on all Workgroup machines; 4) trying to create shares where the operating system does not permit it. A. Configure firewalls on all machines to allow the Local Area Network (LAN) traffic as trusted. With Windows Firewall, this means allowing File/Printer Sharing on the Exceptions tab. Normally running the Network Setup Wizard on XP will take care of this for those machines.The only "gotcha" is that this will turn on the XPSP2 Windows Firewall. If you aren't running a third-party firewall or have an antivirus with "Internet Worm Protection" (like Norton 2006/07) which acts as a firewall, then you're fine. With third-party firewalls, I usually configure the LAN allowance with an IP range. Ex. would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you would substitute your correct subnet. Do not run more than one firewall. DO NOT TURN OFF FIREWALLS; CONFIGURE THEM CORRECTLY. B. For ease of organization, put all computers in the same Workgroup. This is done from the System applet in Control Panel, Computer Name tab. C. Create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. You do not need to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords assigned to each user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just need to exist and match on all machines. DO NOT NEGLECT TO CREATE PASSWORDS, EVEN IF ONLY SIMPLE ONES. If you wish a machine to boot directly to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for convenience, you can do this. The instructions at this link work for both XP and Vista: Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm D. If one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center, turn off Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab). E. Create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users' home directories or Program Files, but you can share folders inside those directories. A better choice is to simply use the Shared Documents folder. See the first link above for details about Vista sharing. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ
Guest 3c273 Posted September 11, 2008 Posted September 11, 2008 Re: Networking Question Get a wireles router and plug the desktop into the router and configure the wireless card to talk to the router. Most wireless routers have a pretty good quick start guide that will get you up and running pretty quickly. Louis "--Ivan--" <Ivan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2A87687E-DA25-4FB3-AFAA-ADD9728818D8@microsoft.com... > HI > > IM pretty good with computer but not the networking side of things so i > have a question > > I just bought a new laptop which has 802.11b/g Wlan > > My question is how can i network the laptop with my computer using wireless??? > > any help is great > > thank you
Guest Plato Posted September 14, 2008 Posted September 14, 2008 Re: Networking Question =?Utf-8?B?LS1JdmFuLS0=?= wrote: > > My question is how can i network the laptop with my computer using wireless??? http://www.bootdisk.com/ NETWORKING
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