Using Home Networking

    Use Home Networking to share disk drives, printers, and a single Internet connection between computers in your home. After you have networked your computers, you can share files, share printers, and play multi-player games with others on your home network.

    This chapter contains information about:

Setting up your home network
Sharing drives and printers on the network
Sharing Internet access
Using the network

Setting up your home network

    Before setting up your home network, view the guided tour to find out what you will be able to do once you have networked your home computers. Make your hardware connections and then run the AnyPoint software.

    Each computer in your network must have a network card and a dedicated phone jack connected to the same line number. (The computers can be daisy chained.)

    The process of setting up your home network consists of several procedures:

Connecting computers to the network
Installing the AnyPoint program on each computer
Setting up shared drives and printers
Mapping shared drives and printers

    The AnyPoint program also contains a guided tour that you can view to learn about the features and functions of the program.

To view the AnyPoint guided tour:

    1. Double-click the Intel AnyPoint Home Network icon on the Windows desktop.
      The Intel AnyPoint Network window opens.
    1. Click OK .
      The Intel AnyPoint Network Setup window opens.
    1. Click Guided Tour.

Connecting to the network

    Your Gateway computer comes with the network adapter card and the AnyPoint installation program already installed.

    Connect your computer to a home network by plugging one end of the modem cable to your modem port on the computer and the other end into the wall phone jack.

    Connect other computers and shared devices to the network according to manufacturers' instructions.

Installing the AnyPoint program

    After you connected your modem and telephone cables for each of the computers on your home network, you are ready to run the AnyPoint installation program, then share and map your drives and printers.

    The AnyPoint installation program is already on your hard drive. To install the program, first run the installation program on your primary computer, then run it on each computer that is to be networked.

    During each installation, the AnyPoint program asks if your computer is to be an Internet Sharing Software (ISS) server. Only one computer on your network can be the ISS server. The ISS computer:

Has a modem
Has an Internet Service Prover (ISP) account
Has already successfully connected the the ISP account at least once.
Will be bused by all computers on the network to connect to the Internet.

    All other computers on the network are ISS clients.

To install the AnyPoint program:

    1. Double-click the Intel AnyPoint Home Networking icon on the desktop. The Intel AnyPoint Home Network welcome window opens.
    2. Click OK. The AnyPoint Home Network setup window opens.
    1. Click Install.
    2. Follow the on-screen instructions. During the installation, the program asks you if you want to set up the computer as an ISS Server. Only one computer on the network can be the ISS Server.
    3. Repeat Steps 1 through 4 on each computer in your home network.

For more information on ISS servers and clients, see "Internet sharing.

Sharing and mapping drives and printers after installation

    Sharing makes drives and printers available for other computers to use. Sharing lets you make a computer's hard drives or printer available to other computers on the network. Sharing gives permission to other computers on the network to read from, write to, or delete files on the shared computer and print using its printer.

    The process of connecting a computer on the network to shared drives and printers is called mapping. You can map during the installation of the AnyPoint Home Networking program, or you can do so after installation using the Sharing and Mapping program. (You probably will want to share all your drives and printers so that other computers on the network can map to them.)

    Drives and printers are normally shared and mapped during the program installation process. However, you can set up sharing and mapping at any time after installation.

To share drives and printers:

    1. Make sure you have installed the AnyPoint program on each computer on your network.
    2. Click Start, then select Programs, Intel AnyPoint Network, then Sharing and Mapping Software. A welcome window opens while the program loads, then the initial setup window opens.
    3. Click Next.
      The sharing and mapping dialog box opens.
    1. Review the settings, make any desired changes, then click Next repeatedly until you see the Finish button.
    2. Click Finish. The What Should You Do Next dialog box opens.
    3. Click OK.
    4. Exit from the Sharing and Mapping program and leave the computer running.
    5. Repeat this procedure for each computer for the drives or printers that you want to share.
    6. After you have installed the AnyPoint software on all the computers and have shared all the drives and printers, go to the next procedure.

To map new network drives and printers:

    1. Make sure you have installed the AnyPoint program and have used the Sharing and Mapping software to share your drives and printers on each computer on your network.
    2. Click Start, then select Programs, then Intel AnyPoint Network.
    3. Select Sharing and Mapping software.
    4. When the Welcome dialog box opens, click Next.
    5. Click Next until the Drive Mapping dialog box opens.
    1. Review the Drive Mapping settings and make any desired changes. When finished, click Next.
      The Printer Mapping settings screen opens.
    1. Review the Printer Mapping settings, then make any desired changes.
    1. Click Next until you see the Finish button.
    2. Click Finish.
      The What Should You Do Next dialog box opens.
    1. Click OK.
    2. If you need to map additional computers, leave this computer running, and move to the next computer. Then repeat this procedure for each computer with drives or printers you want to map.
      - OR -
      If you are finished mapping drives and printers, the network setup is complete.

Using the network

    After shared network drives and printers are mapped, you can access them as though they were attached directly to your computer. Then you can:

View a network drive
Open and copy files stored on other network computers
Print documents on network printers

Viewing network drives

    After you map network drives, the drives appear on your computer as if they were local drives.

To view your network drive:

    1. Double-click the My Computer icon.
    2. Click on the icon for the drive that you want to view.

Opening files across the network

To open files across the network:

    1. Start the program for the file you want to open.
    2. Select File, then select Open.
    3. Browse to the network drive that contains the file you want to open.

        Important

        If the network drive does not appear in the list, make sure you mapped the network drive.

      • Double-click the folder containing the file, then double-click the file.

    Copying files across the network

    To copy files across the network:

      1. Double-click My Computer.
      2. Browse to the file you want to copy.

          Important

          If the network drive does not appear in the list, make sure you mapped the network drive.


        • Click on the file.
        • Select Edit, then Copy.
        • Double-click the folder where the file is to be copied.
        • Select Edit, then Paste.

      Printing files across the network

      To print files across the network:

        1. Start the program for the file you want to print.
        2. Select File, then Print.
        3. In the printer name list, click on the network printer.
        4. Click OK.

            Important

            If the network printer does not appear in the list, make sure you mapped the network printer.

        Internet sharing

          Internet Sharing Software (ISS) lets all computers on the network access the Internet at the same time using one Internet connection. The computer supplying the modem and the ISP account is the ISS server, and the computers that access the Internet through the server are ISS clients.

          For the ISS clients to share the Internet the ISS server must be turned on, but it does not need to be connected to the Internet. When a client runs an Internet program, the ISS server connects automatically.

        To access the Internet from an ISS client:

          1. Make sure the ISS server is turned on.
          2. At the ISS client computer, connect to the Internet using an Internet program such as a Web browser or e-mail program.
          3. If the Internet Connection Wizard opens, select the option that says you already have an Internet account on the computer.

              Important

              Sleep mode is automatically disabled on the ISS server computer to assure constant access to the Internet by ISS clients.