Home Networking Questions

mamazaac

My son wanted to set up a home networking system between our home pc and his netbook as he said it would enable him to use devices such as our printer and access folders on our home pc. I have managed to set up the network successfully using the wizard from control panel, and now have two questions.

1. neither I nor my son are sure how to actually go about him using the printer from his netbook, or accessing folders, so please could someone enlighten us on this?

2. I want to set up a recovery disk for my son's netbook but it doesn't have a cd/dvd drive built in. Is there a way to connect his netbook to the dvd writer built in to our home pc?

Many thanks in advance for any help:)

macman

What OS are you running on each machine?

mamazaac

macman wrote: »

What OS are you running on each machine?

xp on both

SkemTec

Try this link, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3BejNTWzHysC&pg=PA267&lpg=PA267&dq=setting+up+network+shares+on+XP+for+dummies&source=bl&ots=3DMMZFUSdV&sig=q13dXy6NyGFln3CJ2JrdCTxQj6Y&hl=en&ei=zvyPS5-kD5320wS7wqXwDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CA8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=&f=false It is a book called Network Set Up for dummies. Dont take offense this is just a name and it covers it all.

bugeyed

and as this is a money saving website
http://eu.dummies.com/how-to/computers-software/operating-systems/windows-xp-vista/hardware-system-maintenance/network-set-up.html
rather than buy the book

bugeyed

If you were to create a backup/recovery disk for his netbook, how would you use it to restore the system as it doesn't have a drive ?

bugeyed

I use goodsync to backup all my valuable documents and pictures
see http://www.goodsync.com/how-it-works/overview

mamazaac

bugeyed wrote: »

If you were to create a backup/recovery disk for his netbook, how would you use it to restore the system as it doesn't have a drive ?

The IT Dept at work said that it is possible to copy from the disk onto a usb stick if we ever needed to do that. I only have a couple of flash drives and they are expensive to buy, so would rather keep the back up on dvd or cd for now.

mamazaac

bugeyed wrote: »

I use goodsync to backup all my valuable documents and pictures
see http://www.goodsync.com/how-it-works/overview

Thank you, can I back up his whole system to this in the event that we need to reboot it?

bugeyed

Use goodsync to backup all valuable documents and folders onto an external drive.
Usb external drives are cheap. £10 for an 8gb one here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flash-Memory-8GB-USB-DRIVE/dp/B001AEBYO6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1267736574&sr=8-1
just search amazon for 8gb usb drive

bugeyed

Heres how to make a usb stick into a windows instalation 'disk'
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/windowsxpusb

Requires a bit of reading but fairly simple