Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Wed Aug 28 13:37:21 CDT 2013
1) http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/join-or-create-a-workgroup <http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/join-or-create-a-workgroup> 2) You probably would need to set up some SHARES on each system of the folders you want to be visible on the other system. Then once you have the shares you might want to reboot both systems and then try to map a drive on the other system. 3) If the printer does wireless, perhaps it also would do WIRED NETWORK connection and so could be plugged directly into a wired router port. That might save you from having to jump through some wireless setup on the printer. My printer at home is connected to my router in this manner with a fixed IP address so it doesn't get renumbered when the router gets rebooted and so is easier to find by the client systems. I like this setup better than sharing the printer connected to a computer because the printer is available without the client machine being up and running. Only the network need be up and any of my systems can use the printer. On my printer I just connect it to the router via ethernet cable. Then I turn it on. Then I print out the "Network Information" page from the printer which has the IP address the router assigned it. Then if I want to hard assign a specific IP address I search the internet for my particular printer manufacturer and model number and find the documentation on setting a IP address on my specific printer (an HP Photosmart 8450 ) and follow those instructions for setting that IP address which I essentially used the one the router assigned and just changed the last part to be .199 so as to be up higher than the router will normally assign on it's own. Then go to the client PC's and set up a printer and tell it's a LOCAL printer but instead of connecting to LPT or USB port, you connect it to an IP ADDRESS for which you may have to assign a PORT which can be the same name as the IP address. You'll see what I mean when you get there. On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>wrote: > 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? > 2. Once that is achieved, are there any extra steps I must carry out to > make the machines visible to one another? > 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? > > TIA, > -- > Arthur > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com