Help Beginners guide to Peer home network
- From: David Maconochie <djm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:59:13 GMT
Although I am a long time user of OS2 since 2.1 beta, I have not tried to use Peer to Peer before. I have always got by with NFS, FTP, LPRMON and LPD configured by hand. Neither have I any experience installing sharing under Windows.
I have looked long and hard on the internet for an idiots guide to basic use of Peer and failed to find anything simple enough!
My overall aim is to share resources between a desktop (with modem and printer) with two laptops, one of them running Ugghhh XP (my wife), and using a wireless router.
I am doing this step by step and am stuck on the first step.
I installed File and Print Client with MCP4.52, remembering to set a userid and passwd, and calling my domain IBMPEERS, laptop 1 (T30J) IP 10.0.0.4 and laptop 2 (TP570) 10.0.0.2 (yes I know I will have to change these for the router)
Installed a Net adapter on each, with TCPIP plus Netbios over TCPIP on each using MPTS. I also created an entry in the names list and the broadcast list of each, for example on laptop 1 "TP570" 10.0.0.2
On rebooting I see "Net requester" starting and closing without error messages, ditto for "File and print client".
Just to be sure they really are connected, I can ping each from the other. I can also FTP one to t'other.
QUESTIONS:
BASICS
1) What next to make T30J' C:\ drive visible to T570 as drive L:\? I am partway there, see 9) below.
2) How to make this automated so mount ocurs at boot up?
3) How to make this password protected? Eg so that wife can see C:\JENNY only whereas I can see C:\ and all subdirectories.
4) How to make a printer on T30J usable on TP570?
ROUTER 5) Do I want to use a dynamic or a static IP address system? 6) how do I configure the two laptops if I go with dynamic?
CONNECTIONS
I click on the Connections icon, then Network Services and LAN Server Administration. I am prompted for user name and password, long wait then "remote node or domain server not currently available".
7) So what functions does a domain server fulfil, do I want one and how do I create one?
I click on the "Sharing and Connecting" icon, get a log in prompt and then my drive icons menus have a "Start sharing".
8) So is this the identical function to the Logon icon in the Logons folder (with a man at a desk icon)?
9) Do I have to go through this every time I reboot each in order for resources to be shared? Or can I just put a shadow of one of these in the Startup folder?
Clicking on drive D: and going through the Start Sharing routine, I share D:\ to all as label DDRIVE.
10) How can I tell quickly when a resource is shared? No helpful tick as in windows.
11) Where can I go to unshare all the things I have forgotten that I have shared?
That will probably do for starters! Sorry about all the exceedingly dumb questions, but to a P2P virgin this is all exceptionally confusing.
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