Setting up home network

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We're building a house and I want to set up a home network
but not sure how to do it. I also need to be able to
connect my work laptop to it so that I can access the
printer, scanner etc. I have a cable modem set up with a
router right now.

HELP!!! Please provide information. Thanks!
 
K,

I built my network at home I even call it DaveLAN, and yes
every PC can access my printer on everyone of my PCs. I
use a cable modem to a router and then I have a hub set
up, so every network jack that I installed in the house is
wired and live on the internet. Is this what your looking
for?
 
Yes, this is exactly what I'm looking for. I don't need
to invest in a server do I? Will I also be able to hook
my work laptop up to it and utilize the printer? My
builder had each room, that we specified that might have a
computer in it, installed with a network jack, each of
those jacks do a home run to the closet in what will be
the office. This is where I'm thinking to have the router
and whatever else I need. My office will have the main
computer printer etc which will be our primary computer
and also have an area for me when I work from home.
 
www.wown.com may have info useful to you.

Strong recommendation: install a firewall between the router and the LAN; many
of them incorporate a hub or switch.

Andrew
 
On the topic of the "work machine on home LAN".

You can do this, but the secret is NOT NOT NOT to change any network
settings on the work machine if you can help it. If you browse the
archives you will see lots of posts from people who have brought the
work laptop home, physically connected it to the home LAN, *joined it
to the home LAN's workgroup* and now can't connect at work.

The reason is that changing the network settings to connect to the
home LAN disconnects the machine from the work Domain. When you then
try to connect to the work LAN, you would have to a) remove the
machine account from the work Domain, and b) then rejoin the laptop to
the work Domain. If you don't have this access, you will have to ask
the people who do, and in general, they will not be too pleased.

The secret is to physically connect your laptop to the home LAN, then
login as if you were connecting *at work* to the work LAN. This will
work, using cached credentials. Then you access all resources on the
home LAN by prefixing your requests with the home LAN name of the
resource and using home LAN credentials.

Say you have a shared drive on "wifescomp" called "accounts". Then
from the laptop you refer to the share as "\\wifescomp\accounts". You
will need an already created account on "wifescomp", say "dave" with a
password that you know. When you try to access the "accounts" share
you will be prompted for a user/password. The trick is to specify the
user as "wifescomp\dave".

It may sound complicated, but it's not really. Just think of it as a)
pretending to be on the work LAN, b) consequently having to make
network requests which explicitly say that you are on the home LAN.

If you don't have any name resolution on the home LAN, you can safely
add the home machines to the "hosts" file on the laptop - unless the
work people do something tricky with the "hosts" file! You may have to
check with them.

Cheers,

Cliff
 
K,

Okay what you do is have DCHP running, so your router
gives all your PCs a connection to the Internet, make sure
this works before moving on. You need set all PCs up in
the same WORKGROUP. You also need to load NETBEUI
Protocol and make sure that File and Print Sharing are
loaded. Set up your printer on your main PC. And share
that by giving it a name. On your Laptop or other PC,
connect to your main PC by using "map network drive".
You'll see your Printer listed and any other shared
folders. Double click and then windows should start to
load the drivers needed, print a test page and your done.
If you want send me an email at netturtle.charter.net if
you need any more assistance.
 
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