Networking Your Vista PC with XP and Mac Machines . Many times I have been inside the guts of a network settings dialog box, wondering why I am not feeding fudge to an affectionate defector from the Swedish bikini team.
Networking is perhaps the most mystical of the silicon arts because any one hiccup in the chain of hardware, cabling, and wireless transceivers, and the data that flows across them can cause odd and random behavior that is difficult to diagnose. Windows has been no superhero in all this. Network software and controls have been kludgy, inconsistent, and too complex for most users. I mean, why must we be subjected to an irrelevant subnet mask setting when we are installing two computers on a dinky home network?
We shouldn't even have to think about that in a simple install. That said, Vista's networking implementation is a welcome improvement over what came before. It is by no means perfect, however. Although Microsoft has herded a lot of the settings together into a new cleaner interface, once you start digging, you realize it's only half a makeover. It's beauty and the beast. What follows will help you make home networking between a Vista computer and other computers and devices less painful. Basic Network Assumptions.
The standard deployment for network connectivity at home and in a small business is two or more computers connected to a device called a home network router (see Figure 1. Figure 1. 1. 1 Be sure you have a home network router, like this Linksys router, installed to follow the advice in this chapter properly. A router is like an intersection. All data on a home network flows through it. That said, I am not going to delve into the intricacies of how to set up a router here; lots of authors have done that.
However, if you are having trouble getting your router and broadband Internet connection to work, check out Chapter 1.
Upgrading to Windows 7 but still have XP or Vista machines? Eric Geier shows you how to network among all these Windows versions. Windows XP And Vista On The LAN Together. Age of Empires 2 on a LAN network between Windows XP and Vista.
Updated: August 31, 2007. Applies To: Windows Server 2008. Complete Guide to Networking Windows 7. Share a Printer on a Home Network from Vista or XP to. That puts Vista on the same workgroup as your Windows XP PC. Alternatively, you can change your Windows XP PC’s workgroup name to WORKGROUP by following these same.
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