Choose the Workgroup radio button and then type in a name of a grouping
you want all of your computers to be part of.
Click the OK button. You??™ll get a pop-up message telling you that you must restart
your computer for the changes you made to take effect. Click the OK button
to close the System Properties dialog box and then restart your computer.
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Figure 12-1
Descriptive names
for your computer
and workgroup help
you easily identify
and connect to each
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network.
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Repeat these instructions for all of the computers on your home network. When
you are finished placing all of your computers into the same workgroup, all of the
computers??™ names should appear in the window when you open My Network Places
(XP) or Network (Vista) window.
If you bring home a computer from your office, it may be a member of a different workgroup
or in an Active Directory domain, defined by your office computer support people. You can
usually change the workgroup name to match your home network, but be careful to change it
back before you connect at the office. You will probably not be able to change from Domain to
Workgroup mode unless you have domain administrator rights on your office network (few of us
should or do).
Step 2: Verify NetBIOS Settings
If you cannot ???see??? one or more computers within your new workgroup, it is probably
because one or more computers do not have Windows NetBIOS network communications
enabled in the Advanced TCP/IP Settings dialog box, shown in Figure 12-2.
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