windows xp networking

Hands On:Configuring Windows XP Home for Networking

Chapter 1b

Panko’s Business Data Networks and Telecommunications, 6th edition

Copyright 2007 Prentice-HallMay only be used by adopters of the book

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Windows XP Home Networking

• Windows XP

– The dominant client operating system from Microsoft today

– Strong security features make it a wise upgrade for older computers

– Strong networking features

– Windows XP Home is fine for home networks

– Windows XP Professional is used within firms• Has similar basic networking setup

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Topics

• Network and Internet Connections dialog box– Your starting point for almost all networking setup

tasks

• Setting up an Internet connection

• Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file and printer sharing– Allowing your directories and printers to be shared

– Using shares on other computers

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Network and Internet Connections Dialog Box (Figures 1b-1 and 1b-2)

To bring up this dialog box,Hit Start, then Control Panel.

Select Network and Internet Connections

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Network and Internet Connections Dialog Box, Continued

Set up or change your Internet connectionBegins a Wizard for that task

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Create a connection to the network at your workplaceis for setting up a VPN

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Set up or change your home or small office networkis for setting up file and printer sharing

among PCs in your home

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Network Connectionslets you see and manage your existing network connections

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My Network PlacesShows network resources you can use.

Troubleshootersis for diagnosing networking

and Explorer problems

Internet Optionsis for customizing your use of the Internet

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Topics

• Network and Internet Connections dialog box

• Setting up an Internet connection– Hardware Options

– The Process



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Hardware Options

• Using an Access Router (Gateway)– Simple and relatively inexpensive

AccessRouter

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Hardware Options

• Internet Connection Sharing– Computer connected to the Internet has two NICs– One NIC runs to the Internet, the other to a switch– Other PCs connect to the switch– Saves little money

EthernetSwitch

CableModem

NIC 1NIC 2

Due to price changes,This option no longer makes sense

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Hardware Options

• Internet Connection Sharing– Computer connected to the Internet has two NICs

– If there is only one other PC, the second NIC can connect directly with the other PC’s RJ-45 jack with a crossover cable (which reverses pins)

– Avoids cost of access router

CableModem

CrossoverUTP

Cable

Due to price changes,This option no longer makes sense

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Set up or change your Internet connectionOpens a Wizard

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1.Internet Properties Connections Tab

2. Click on Setupto create a broadband connection

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Setting Up or Changing a Connection, Continued

Click on Next button

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Select “Connect to the Internet”

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Select “Set up my connection manually”

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Usually Select “Connect using a broadband connection

that is always on”

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Finish the connection

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Topics





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Turning on Sharing

1.Set up or change your home or small office network

is for setting up file and printer sharingamong PCs in your home

2.In Microsoft Windows terminology, files and

directories, and printers that are shared are called shares.

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Turning on Sharing, Continued

These options turn onfile (and directory) sharing and printer sharing

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Go through this checklist

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You must give your computer a name.Others will access it via this name.

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You must specify a workgroup name foryour home network.

All computers on the network must begiven the same workgroup name.

This common workgroup name is howcomputers in the workgroup find one another

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Do NOT use the default workgroup nameMSHOME. This lets hackers break in easily

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The computer will apply the settings.

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• What is Shared?

– By default, ONLY the Shared Documents directory (SharedDocs) is shared automatically

• Anyone using the same workgroup name can read, change, delete, and add files to this directory!

• To share files, copy them here from your other directories, which are protected by default

– You may share other directories

– You may share printers

Warning!

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• You can share another directory through Windows Explorer (My Computer, etc.)– Right click on the directory

– In the directory’s Properties box, select the Sharing tab

– Under network sharing and security, click on “Share this folder on the network”

– Enter a share name by which others will access it– Click on “Allow network users to change my files” if

you want more than read-only access

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• Designating Specific Printers to be shared

– Click on Start / Printers and Faxes

– Right-click on the printer you want to share• Select Properties

– Continue on the next slide…

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Click on the Sharing tab.

Select “Share this printer”.

Give it a Share name.Others will access it by this name.

If other computers run older versions of Windows,you may need to add drivers on those computers.

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Topics





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Accessing Shared Files

• Click on Start / My Network Places

– Select the directory share you wish to use

– All shares whose computers have the same workgroup name will be found automatically

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Accessing a Shared Printer

• Step 1: Make a Shared Printer Accessible to You

Select Start / Printers and Faxes

The Printers and Faxes Dialog Box Will Appear (Next slide)

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Select“Add a printer”

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A Wizardwill be

activated

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Select “A network printer …”

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Select“Browse for a printer”

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Select a printer from the available printers.

Then select “Next”

The printer will then be available to you.

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• Step 2: Printing after you have added the printer– In any application …

• Select Print• Choose the network printer from the Name: drop-

down menu