Archive for May, 2005

How to create a user account in Windows XP

If you have an XP computer on your LAN, and it has files that you need access to, you can log into from another computer using a user account that already exists on the XP machine.
Note: Do NOT use the administrator account for this purpose! In fact, you should NOT use the administrator account […]

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How your network is like a 3-layer cake

Your network is really like a 3-layer cake.
The bottom layer is the Physical layer — the hardware, the cabling, the network cards, the router, and so forth.
The middle layer is the Operating System layer — Windows OS controls things like the user accounts, the file system, file-sharing, file permissions, installation and configuration of […]

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