[dba-Tech] Home Network Setup

> ...restart each computer.

And wait a bit! It can take a Windows machine a little while to find new 
network machines.

PB

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On 2013-08-28 1:07 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
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> From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 2:57:21 AM
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Home Network Setup
>
> This may strike you as odd, but even though I've been in the business for
> 30ish years, I have never set up a network, not even a home network. And
> now, for the first time, I have two computers at home and running, so it's
> time to take the leap.
>
> On box, my faithful old tower, runs Windows 7 and has been declared a part
> of a workgroup called Camelot. The other, a fancy new laptop, has so far
> not been declared - principally because I can't find where to do so in the
> Windows 8 UI.
>
> Both computers are connected to a wireless router. My sole printer (a
> Brother MFC-J625-DW) is connected to the Windows 7 tower, but it allegedly
> can do wireless as well. I'll have to dig up the manual to see how that is
> done. Anyway, the goal is to have the computers able to see other other's
> files, and in particular the pair of USB external drives, which at the
> moment are connected to the tower.
>
> My questions:
> 1. How do I declare the Windows 8 laptop to be part of the Camelot?
>   workgroup?
>
> ...Both computers have to be in the same workgroup (Camelot in this case. You don't have a domain or server). Both computers be in the same network and that mean their IP addresses must be in the same group; default is 192.168.123.xxx, (for example, each computer would be xxx = 065 and 066 respectively...I like to hard-wire IP addresses as I hate wandering computers.) 255.255.255.0 and the gateway/DNS is probably the same as the router which should be something like 192.168.123.001 (254?), 255.255.255.0
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> 2. Once that is achieved, are there any extra steps I must carry out to
> make the machines visible to one another?
>
> ...restart each computer.
>
> 3. I'm OK with skipping the wireless printer connection, since the only
> time I'll ever be moving it is if I move out of my apartment. But I do want
> the printer to be visible to the laptop. How do I do that?
>
> ...You have to share the printer and any directories in any the two computers you want the other computer to see.
>
> This is the abridged version but you can probably fill in the computer specifics being a programmer guy.
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> TIA,