May 1998
Beginner
1128 pages
30h 26m
English
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Chapter 28. Setting Up Windows 98 for Networking
by Paul McFedries and Peter Kuo
IN THIS CHAPTER
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 the right way, tossing in the ...