Microsoft® Windows 7 Unleashed

Chapter 25. Setting Up a Small Network

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• Setting Up a Peer-to-Peer Network

• Working with Windows 7’s Basic Network Tools and Tasks

• Managing Network Connections

• Managing Wireless Network Connections

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	Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures—in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
	--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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 ...