家庭、小型办公室、局域网的组建（国外英文资料）.doc

家庭、小型办公室、局域网的组建（国外英文资料） A home or small office, if you have two or more computers, naturally wants to make a network of them. To facilitate the narrative, the following convention is called a LAN. In the home environment, you can use this network to share resources, play games that require multiplayer, share a modem for Internet connection, and so on. In the office, such networks are used primarily to solve Shared peripherals such as printers, and the office LAN is also the infrastructure for collaborative work.   although in such a small network engineering, in the past also need professionals to network configuration. At that time, most of the operations were manual, and the average user had no knowledge or experience. It is a case of high and low, which limits its development. The emergence of Windows XP has broken this dynamic, relying on a powerful network support function and a handy guide. After the user through the physical connection, connection wizard operation, can detect the network hardware, install the corresponding driver or agreement, and to guide the user, to complete all the configuration steps.   this paper introduces two network schemes under Windows XP operating system, and introduces Windows XP for local area network (LAN) in various very distinctive features.   a. Goal:   family LAN: foreign, can connect to the Internet, allowing the computer sharing connections within the local area network (LAN). Internally, network resources and devices can be Shared.   2. The network form?   home network of the computer may have a desktop or laptop computer, PDA or laptop machine and so on, for example, may also appear all kinds of transmission medium interface, so the network form, unfavorable use the wired network, wireless interface must be considered. But if you can clearly locate in a pure cable network, there is no wireless interface. So here are two options:   1. Wired and wireless.   2. Cable.   3. Network hardware choice   the