Testing Your Network; Adding A Printer To Your Network; Sharing Resources; Sharing Drives And Printers - Gateway 3-Bay mBTX Pro User Manual

Testing your network

Now that your home network is set up, log onto one of your computers and access a favorite
Internet Web site.
If you are unable to connect to the Internet:
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Adding a printer to your network

Instead of plugging a printer into your computer, you can add a printer to your network. To
add a printer to the network, do one of the following:
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Sharing resources

With a network, you can share your Internet connection, drives, and printers.

Sharing drives and printers

With a network, you can share drives (for example hard drives and DVD drives) and printers
among the computers connected to the network.
have the shared printer's drivers installed. Follow the instructions included with
your printer to install the printer drivers on each computer.
After the drives and printers on each network computer are shared, you can access them as
though they were attached directly to your computer. Then you can:
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CHAPTER 9: Networking Your Computer
Click (Start), Control Panel, Network and Internet, then the Network and Sharing
Center.
Choose Diagnose and Repair on the left of the window. Take any actions suggested.
If you are using a wired Ethernet network, check all physical cable connections
If you are using a wireless Ethernet network, make sure that your access point is plugged
in and compare the status lights on the front of the access point with the patterns described
in the access point documentation
Compare the status lights on the front of the router or access point with the patterns
described in the router or access point literature
Temporarily turn off any firewall software on your desktop computer
Turn off all of the devices, then power them back on
Refer to your router's or access point's troubleshooting information
Contact your Internet service provider
Connect your printer to your networked computer, then share the printer. For information
about sharing printers, see
Connect your printer to your router or access point if the router or access point includes
a USB or parallel port. For more information, see the instructions that came with your router
or access point.
Use a printer that has built-in networking.
Use a print server.
Important
To share a printer among the network computers, each computer must
View a network drive
Open and copy files stored on other network computers
Print documents on network printers
"Sharing drives and printers" on page 92.