Click the plus sign to the left of Network adapters to display the adapter attached to Right-click your network interface card.

Chapter 10 ✦ Configuring Networking Software 4. You can enter a computer description, if you want. 5. Click OK. You must restart your computer when Windows prompts you. Click Yes to restart the computer. The installation is now complete. You need to repeat these steps with each computer on the network. Add the same client, protocol, and service to each computer. Add the adapter soft- ware appropriate to the network interface card installed on each computer. Make sure that you use a unique computer name but the same workgroup name for all computers. To identify your computer to the network in Windows 2000 or XP, follow these steps: 1. Open the System Properties dialog box and select the Computer Name tab. 2. Click the Change button. The Computer Name Changes dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 10-23. Figure 10-23: Change your name or the workgroup.

3. Make any changes you want. 4. Click OK and OK again to close the dialog boxes.

When you have finished installing the networking software on all computers, your next step is to share drives, folders, files, and peripherals. For information about sharing, see Chapter 12. Note Part II ✦ Planning and Setting Up Networking — Hardware and Software Summary In this chapter, you’ve learned to install and configure the networking software, including the following: ✦ Network adapter software ✦ Protocols ✦ Clients ✦ Services In the next chapter, you learn about adding various operating systems to your network. ✦ ✦ ✦ Using Access Control The Access Control tab of the Network dialog box offers two options for controlling access to shared resources: share-level and user-level. You should use share-level access for a workgroup network. User-level works best with a clientserver network, such as NT Server or NetWare. The default option is share-level, so you don’t have to make any changes to this tab. Share-level access control enables you to supply a password for each shared resource. So, if you want to share a folder or printer, you can assign a password to that resource. Only people who know the password can access that resource. Also, you don’t have to use passwords for sharing resources, but you have the capability if you want to use it. User-level access control works by assigning specific users or groups of users access to resources on the computer. Clientserver networks use groups for authentication and permissions pur- poses; thus, user-level access works better in that environment. Access control is available in Windows 98, 2000, and XP.