Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ Unleashed

Chapter 23. Accessing and Using Your Network

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Learning Some Common Network Tasks

• Accessing Network Resources

• Sharing Resources with the Network

• Working with Offline Files and the Sync Center

• Collaborating with Windows Meeting Space

In Chapter 22, “Setting Up a Small Network,” you saw that connecting to a network in Vista is either automatic (in the case of most wired connections) or requires just a few steps (in the case of most wireless networks). You also saw that the new Network and Sharing Center makes it easy to work with your network connections. So far, Vista appears to be the best Windows networking client we’ve seen from Microsoft to date. However, the networking proof is in the access pudding, which is to say that a networking ...