Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ Unleashed

Chapter 22. Setting Up a Small Network

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Setting Up a Peer-to-Peer Network

• Understanding the Network Icon

• Displaying the Network and Sharing Center

• Customizing Your Network

• Turning Network Discovery On or Off

• Viewing a Network Map

• Managing Wireless Networks

• Working with Network Connections

For many years, networking was the private playground of IT panjandrums. Its obscure lingo and arcane hardware were familiar to only this small coterie of computer cognoscenti. Workers who needed access to network resources had to pay obeisance to these powers-that-be, genuflecting in just the right way, tossing in the odd salaam or two.

Lately, however, we’ve seen a democratization of networking. Thanks to the trend away from mainframes and toward client/server ...