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ETHERNET LAN:
HOW CONNECT TWO PC
- SOFTWARE (Part 3) -

MY COMPUTER >  CONTROL PANEL > NETWORK > CONFIGUTION > TCP/IP PROTOCOL:

• IP ADDRESS: for a LAN are usually used "Class C" address startig for "192";
  common address for small lan are 192.168.1.xx;
  Select "IP ADDRESS" and give at PC 1 the address 192.168.1.1 and to PC 2 the address 192.168.1.2;
  As SUBNET MASK give 255.255.255.0 to both PCi;

• WINS CONFIGURATION: DISABLE WINS RESOLUTION;

• GATEWAY: no gateway;

• DNS CONFIGURATION: DISABLE DNS;

• NETBIOS: don't touch;

• ADVANCED: don't touch;

• BINDING: CLIENT FOR MICROSOFT NETWORK and FILE AND PRINTER SHARING FOR MICROSOFT NETWORK;

Click OK;

MY COMPUTER >  CONTROL PANEL > NETWORK > CONFIGURATION > NETWORK CARD

• DRIVER: Driver NDIS advanced (32 and 16 bit);

• BINDING: click on TCP/IP;

• ADVANCED: this window is variable (depends from NIC installed); often here you can select the link speed (10-100 Mb or AUTO MODE).

Click OK;

MY COMPUTER >  CONTROL PANEL > NETWORK > CONFIGURATION > CLIENT FOR MICROSOFT NETWORK

• GENERAL > OPTION:
  Select FAST CONNECTION or CONNECT AND RESTORE NETWORK CONNECTION according to your usual access to the network;

MY COMPUTER >  CONTROL PANEL > NETWORK > CONFIGURATION > FILE AND PRINTER SHARING FOR MICROSOFT NETWORK: don't touch.

Click Ok, insert the original WIN 9x installation CD-Room and reboot;

Now you need to specify what resource and what printer to share;
Go under MY COMPUTER, right click on the drive or printer you want to share and select SHARE

click on the preferred SHARE type:

• Read only

• Read and Write

• According to the password;

You can share all the drive or just a directory or a file;
Make the same on the other PC.

After rebooting it should be possible access to the other PC trought the network.

73 de iz7ath , Talino Tribuzio