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to share an Internet connection across your network and your WinBook
notebook will your primary connection to that network, you will be asked
to make a floppy disk with the necessary information for your other com-
puters (you will need the optional USB Floppy Disk Drive to make this
disk). Check with your Internet provider to determine if you will need to
set up Internet Connection Sharing for your connection (some high-speed
connections do not require you to share the connection and allow multiple
computers to log in through the same connection).
In order to join a workgroup, you will need to identify your computer
and its workgroup. The Home Networking Wizard will ask you to set this
information or you can set the information manually, as explained below.
You will need to create a unique name for your computer (all computers
on the network must have unique names). We recommend that you choose
a name without spaces so that you can use that same name on
other networks if you need to connect to them in the future.
You will also need to establish a name for your workgroup
(if you don’t already have one). When you boot your comput-
er, it will look through the network for that workgroup and
make the resources there (computers, printers, etc.) accessible
to your system.
If you need to set the identification manually (or need to
switch it to log onto another workgroup), right-click on the
My Network Places icon on your desktop and choose
Properties. Click on the Identification tab. Type in the name
of your computer and workgroup (and the optional description,
if you would like). (Figure 4.23)
Once you have established your network, you can find the
resources on the network by opening the My Network Places
icon. You can drag files to the resources in this folder or open
files on those remote computers just as you would with the
folders and files on your computer. If you would like others
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Figure 4.23: Windows Me
Network Identification
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