John R Bartow
jbartow at winhaven.net
Wed Aug 28 17:49:51 CDT 2013
I work with windows workgroup networks all the time and never have issues with them being slow. You have to enable network file and printer sharing on Windows 7 and then it works quite well. Most people seem to choose "Public" when they connect a Windows Vista/7 PC to a network and that's not the thing to do in your home or office, where you should choose "Home" or "Work". Windows 8 seems to be set to automatically do public but then prompts you to switch to home or work when the situation deems it appropriate. So far I've been impressed with Windows 8 workgroup networking. I've been setting up college newbies laptops for the last couple of weeks and they find my network LaserJet and utilize it without me getting involved at all. Yesterday I was setting up a new laptop for a new minister in one the small church offices I support. The Sharp did not have windows 8 drivers listed on their site for the large, maybe 5-6 year old network copier/printer. I thought I'd try Frankensteining it and in the process the initial wizard asked if I wanted to let it search Windows Update for more printers and devices. I did and it downloaded a whole slew of them. I looked through the list and sure enough, there it was. Worked like a charm. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 5:09 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Home Network Setup -----Original Message----- From: Rocky Smolin [mailto:rockysmolin at bchacc.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 5:58 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Home Network Setup I made my W8 laptop part of the workgroup and it merged in seamlessly. I was actually pretty impressed with how easy it was. But I think it happened as part of the W8 setup. Try this: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/join-or-create-a-workgroup The printer on the W7 box needs to be shared. And your W8 box should be able to see it and install it. Let us know. Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 2:57 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues 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? 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 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com