[dba-Tech] Home Network Setup

Arthur,
If you have your "server" turne don all the time then connect everything to
it and share the devices/drives that you need to access from your windows 8
PC. Windows 8 could care less about workgroups. Windows 7 really doesn't
care much either. (If you had XP in the mix it's a little more important.)

For both - to make them more visible enable File and Printer Sharing. Easier
answer to how is type in in the help. 
Windows 7 - [Windows (start) Menu] button and then [Help].
Windows 8 - just start typing while at the Start Screen tiles.
Both will automatically share public folders and printers. If you want to
share a specific folder that isn't public then just find the folder in
Windows Explorer, right click on it and choose Share. Since you're on a home
network by yourself just share with everyone.

I'm assuming you have a standard consumer grade router - so - as long as
you're equipment is all using the same router, it doesn't matter if its
wired or wireless, it's all in the same address range and will work.

-----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 4:57 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
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