Figure 13-4
The Select Users dialog
box allows you to add
multiple users to the
group at one time.
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Step 3: Repeat Account Creation and Group
Memberships on Each Computer
In a workgroup network with a few computers, you have to reproduce the user
account creation process on each and every computer the users will be able to use
directly, or have shared file and print access to. When your network grows to six, ten,
or more computers, you will begin to appreciate the concept and implementation of
centralized servers and managing users and resources from one computer (server)
rather than running all over the house to each computer. The same tools you just used
to create and manage user accounts are also used to disable or delete users.
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Project 14
Control Other
PCs Remotely
What You??™ll Need
Your computers
Your local network
Cost: $0
Some days you??™re just too lazy to get up and walk over to use someone else??™s
computer. Windows XP and Vista have built-in remote-control support tools that
enable you to pretend you are sitting at another computer??”viewing the screen,
moving the mouse, typing characters, and running programs. Remote control can save
you the cost of extra monitors, keyboards, and cables, and lets you provide assistance
to others across your network or the Internet.
Remote control of computers has been around, since, well, forever in computer
time??”from basic text-only terminal sessions, to the Internet technology bringing us
Telnet, to programs like pcAnywhere, to VNC screen-to-screen sessions, to Windows
Remote Desktop.
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