how can i link computers in my office together with LAN?
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One of many ways to do this:\nIf all five computers are windows XP home or XP Pro with network cards on them already - drivers properly loaded - all you need to do is purchase your hub/switch, connect them and you will have a networked LAN.  Now, from here on, there are network services you might need to connect, such has shared files, shared printers, shared internet, etc . . .\nMight be a little to lengthy to answer in this forum.  Let me point you in the right direction:\nCompusa, Best Buy, Newegg.com, cdw.com all sell network or server appliance devices that allow you to connect 5 computers and give all the services above right out of the box.  It is worth the investment to purchase on of these network appliances - they make computing life much easier and reliable - for an estimated $300 to $900 investment depending of capacity, power and speed.  My recommendations:\n\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&SubCategory=386&N=2000240386\n\nhope this starts you in the direction you are looking to go.
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Buy a Wireless router and plug your broadband modem into the router.  Then sink-up the computers to the router.  That should be it.
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Yes it is possible.  If you are using a windows network, the   configuration is almost identical to that of having 2 wired computers. \n\n1. Configure all computers on the network to have the same workgroup\n\n2. Enable file and printer sharing on both systems\n\nThe configuration all depends on which operating system you are running.
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The best way for these so you dont have no problems at all is to purchase a Router. A router will go ahead and be the DHCP server which automaticly send out ip adress to any peripheral connected to it. You mentioned that you have 3 printers, are these printers attached to all 3 workstation you have at your LAN. If they are than you have to shared them out, set the permission so everyone can see one another. Make sure that they are all in the same workgroup which could be your LAN office name or something unique.
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get a switch/hub\n\nget two wires with which you can connect both the Pc's to the hub/switch.a CAT 5 cable basically\n\nboth of these wires should have rj-45 jacks on both sides.\n\njust plug in these wires into your pc and the hub\n\nonce done go to start->settings-> control panel->network and dial up connections\n\nright click on the connection that is showing up as active and go to the tcp/ip properties and give an ip address on one system(windows XP) as 10.10.1.1 and subnet mask as 255.255.255.0 leave the gateway as blank and on the other system(win98) give the ip addres as 10.10.1.2 and subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and gateway as 10.10.1.1\n\nthat should make it work
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runt the network wizard, you have to enable file sharing on them, ans allow them to communicate
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It's already done. Double click on the desktop symbol "network environment" and select "Computers in your neighborhood". There you should find all computers connected to your local LAN. That symbol is similar like a drive symbol.\nThe only thing you have to do, is enable or "free" all that folders where you want have access to. Right click on a folder and select "Enable Folder"? or smth like that.\n\nP.S. sorry, i don't know the exact designations, i have a german OS.
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Yes you can but you don't share the hardware- you share the software. There is a program called VNC which allows you to connect to another PC on the network and take control of it, if it as though you were in front of it, very good piece of software.\nGo here for details- you can download a free limited copy:\nhttp://www.realvnc.com/
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you don't need a router, \nsince both computers connect to the Internet through same gateway or hub\nFollow these steps in order to Network all of them.\non your laptop and desktop, or any other computer,\n-Right Click on My Computer,\n-Select Propreties\n-Select computer Name\n-Name your Laptop "My Laptop", name your Desktop "Desktop" and any other name for different computers.\n-Click on change\n-In the Workgroup space, give all your computers same WorkGroup Name(it is case sensitive). MSHOME is the default, change it to something different, but your computers must be in the same workgroup.\n-Click OK\n- a message "welcome to ******* workgroup" is shown.\n-please restart your computers at this point.\n-when your computers are on,\n-double click on My Network Places\n-on the left bar, click on "view work group computers" do this on both computers.\n-you will see the names of your laptop in the desktop and vice versa.\nyou can now share documents, files, and drives.\n\nASAP
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You can only add other LAN PC's or webfolders configuration to "My network places". It would be better to add yahoo as a shortcut to your desktop.
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If you have ethernet jacks on each computer then you can get a crossover cable which will allow you to create a 2 computer LAN.  You can then setup file sharing on the old computer and just drag and drop your files onto the new computer :)
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First check if you both PCs have on-board lan cards (called Network ready or LAN ready motherboadrs). If anyone dosent have, buy one for it. You also need a LAN cable. The details are below:\n1> Netword Adapter/LAN card \n2>RJ-42 (4twisted pair) LAN clable.\n\ntell the shopkeeper to CLAMP the cable in CROSS format. CROSS is important. Now commect one end to one computer and the other to the other one. Your hardware is set up.\n\nNow just run the network setup wizard (found in control panel-->network connections) or Help center(start-->help).
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plug both computers into the router with ethernet cables.  The dns should set up to do the routing already.  Go and right click the files/folders you want to share and goto the sharing option.  THen on the other computer goto my network places and view workgroup computers, if you dont see the other computer try going up a level since they might be under different workgroups.
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yes you can use a ethernet wire to connect the two computers, and then run the windows application to make one run from another.
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To simply connect two machines directly, if they are within range of one another, you can set up an "ad hoc" connection, using wiFi cards (Which may already be installed, if the laptops are fairly recent)\nMore usefully, install a wireless router and let them share the net connection too.\n\nDetails will vary with operating system age, etc., so you will need to check the handbooks...
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use a switch or hub , and connect all of them  whit your computer , and configure your adsl conection in wndows to allow he other conection use that .
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if you mean network them directly together, i'd say go witha router, if you are connecting through a LAN at say a university, you just need an ethernet cable.