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Connecting to an ad hoc network
To connect another computer to your ad hoc network
1. Start Windows on one of the other PCs that you want to connect to your ad hoc network.
2. From the Windows desktop, right-click My Computer and select Map Network Drive.
The Map Network Drive dialogue box is displayed.
3. From the Drive drop-down list, select a letter that is not being used to represent another
connection or drive.
4. In the Folder field, type \\<computer_name>\<drive_letter>$ into the Folder field, where
<computer_name> is the name or IP address of the computer on which you set up the ad hoc
network and <drive_letter> is the letter of the drive that you want to connect to on the computer.
For example, enter \\192.168.0.1\C$ to connect to the C drive on a computer with an IP address
of 192.168.0.1.
Note:
5. If you are required to log on to the PC before access to the ad hoc network is granted, select
Connect using a different user name. Make sure you have the user name and password that
are required to connect to the PC to which you are connecting.
6. In the Connect As... dialogue box, enter your user name and password
7. Click OK, and then click Finish.
When the connection is established a new window that contains the hard drive of PC1 is displayed.
See your Windows documentation for additional information about setting up an ad hoc network.
Caution:
Unwanted users may try to connect to your ad hoc network. Use of security features such as WEP
is recommended.
Sharing an Internet connection in an ad hoc network
After you successfully create an ad hoc wireless network you can use your Sony Ericsson PC card
to share its internet connection with the other computers that are in the ad hoc network. The computer
that provides the Internet connection is the host computer. All other computers are called clients.
The host computer is the only computer that connects directly to the Internet. It is recommended that the
desktop computer having the fastest microprocessor and the most memory is used as the host computer.
The host computer must be running either the Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating system.
Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) requires that the host computer has either a modem or another
network adapter in addition to your Sony Ericsson PC card. The modem or the additional network
adapter is used to access the Internet. Your Sony Ericsson PC card is used to share the connections
with other clients.
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Advanced wireless LAN features
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To determine the name of a computer, open a command prompt on the computer you want
to find the name of. Type hostname and press return. The computer name is returned.
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You can also use a command prompt to make sure you can connect to another other PC.
Type ping <IP_address> and press return, where <IP_address> is the IP address of the
PC to which you are trying to connect. In the example, you would enter ping 192.168.0.1. PC 1
sends a small amount of data to PC 2, and if a connection is established between the PCs,
replies for each packet of data sent are returned to PC 1.
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