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Networking with Microsoft Windows Vista
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Paul McFedries
ISBN: 0789737779
552 pages {PDF}
E-Book
2007-12-29
Size: 15.27 MB
Your Guide to Easy and Secure Windows Vista Networking is a complete beginner’s guide to creating, configuring, administering, and using a small network using Windows Vista computers.
Inside you’ll find comprehensive coverage of networking hardware, including Ethernet (wired) hardware (from NICs to cables to switches to routers) and wireless Hardware--from wireless NICs to access points to range extenders.
We include handy buyer’s guide that tell you how to make smart choices when purchasing network hardware. With hardware in hand, we then show you how to roll up your shirtsleeves and put everything together, including configuring a router, laying cable, and connecting the devices. Next, we then show you how to wrangle with Windows Vista’s networking features.
These techniques include using the Network and Sharing Center, managing wired and wireless connections, accessing shared network resources, sharing local resources on the network, and working with network files offline.
And if you are a music and video aficionado, we’ve got you covered with a special chapter that shows you just how to set up a networked Vista PC as your digital media hub!
No networking book would be complete without extensive coverage of security issues that affect anyone connected to the Internet.
We show you how to secure each computer, secure your global networking settings, and batten down your wireless connections.
The last part of the book includes intermediate networking tasks such as making remote connections, monitoring the network, troubleshooting network problems, and setting up Vista’s built-in web server and FTP server.
• No longer is networking a topic that only geeks need to understand.
If you have even one computer on the Internet or if you use wireless in your home or office, you need this book!
• Extensive hardware coverage that shows you what equipment to buy and how to set it up!
• Easy to follow buyer’s guides that enable anyone to make smart and informed choices when purchasing networking hardware.
• Complete and comprehensive coverage of Windows Vista’s networking features.
• Thwart hackers, crackers, thieves and other Internet malefactorsby following our easy to understand chapters on security!
• Loaded with tips, tricks, and shortcuts to make networking easierand more secure.
• Chock full of real-world examples and network configurations that you can put to work today!
Only connect!
—E. M. Forster
If you have just a single computer in your home or smalloffice, and if you’re the only person who uses that computer,your setup is inherently efficient.
You can use the machine whenever you like, and everything you need— your applications, your printer, your CD/DVD drive, your Internet connection, and so on—are readily available.
Things become noticeably less efficient if you have to share the computer with other people.
For instance, you might have to wait for someone else to finish a task before you can get your own work done, you might need to have separate applications for each person’s requirements, and you might need to set up separate folders to hold each person’s data.
User accounts and fast user switching in Vista ease these problems, but they don’t eliminate them.
For example, you still have to twiddle a thumb or two while waiting for another person to complete his work.
A better solution is to increase the number of computers available.
Now that machines with fast processors, ample RAM, and massive hard disk space can be had for just a few hundred dollars, a multiple-machine setup is an affordable proposition for most homes.
At home, for example, the current trend is to buy a nice system for Mom and Dad to put in their office, while the kids inherit the old machine for their games and homework assignments.
Now you have several computers kicking around the house or office, but they’re all islands unto themselves.
If you want to print something using another computer’s printer, you’re forced to copy the file to a memory card or other removable media, walk that media over to the other computer, and then print from there.
Similarly, if multiple computers require Internet access, you face the hassle (and expense) of configuring separate connections
So now you must take the final step on this road: Connect everything together to create your own small network.
This will give you all kinds of benefits:
• A printer (or just about any peripheral) that’s attached to one computer can be used by any other computer on the network.
• You can transfer files from one computer to another.
• Users can access disk drives and folders on network computers as though they were part of their own computer.
In particular, you can set up a folder to store common data files, and each user will be able to access these files from the comfort of her machine. (For security, you can restrict access to certain folders and drives.)
• You can set up an Internet connection on one device and share that connection with other machines on the network.
• You can stream images, music, and videos from one computer to another computer or to a digital media receiver, such as an Xbox 360.
• You can set up a wireless portion of your network, which enables you to access other computers and the Internet from just about anywhere in your house or office.
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