Repeat these drive-mapping steps for each shared folder you want to access as
a drive letter, on every computer on your home network that needs access to them.
With mapped drives and shared printers connected to your individual PCs, you??™ve
just created a significant home server.
3.
Figure 22-4
Viewing a workgroup
computer shows you
all available shared
resources.
Figure 22-5
Selecting a drive letter
to associate with the
shared network folder
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Project 23
Dealing with
Dynamic IP
Addresses
What You??™ll Need
A computer
Your local network and Internet connection
No-IP registration
Cost: No-IP Plus service $24.95/year
While we know and access most web sites by their fully qualified domain
name, such as www.yahoo.com, www.espn.com, www.hgtv.com, and so
forth, these are actually host+domain names that are translated by your
ISP??™s Domain Name System server into numeric IP addresses. For a very large web site
such as Yahoo.com, you are actually directed to one of several possible IP addresses,
because a large web site divides the traffic among several different servers. You can
witness this in practice by using the ping command to check the IP address of, say,
www.yahoo.com one day, and then again another day; you??™ll find that the IP address
changes, though you still get to the same web page from your browser.
A similar effect happens with your home cable or DSL Internet connection each
time you connect and disconnect??”but by different technology for different reasons.
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