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Reference Manual for the RangeMax Wireless Router WPN824
Table 2-1. A Road Map for How to Get There From Here (continued)
If I Want To? What Do I Do?
Note: Secure Internet sites such as banks and online merchants use encryption security built into browsers
like Internet Explorer and Netscape. Any wireless networking security features you might implement are in
addition to those already in place on secure Internet sites.
Share
1. Use the Windows
Windows PC
Printers and Fax
files and
features to locate
printers in a
available printers in
combined
the combined
wireless and
wireless and wired
wired
network in your
network.
home.
2. Use the Windows
Add a Printer wizard
Note: For
to add access to a
sharing files
network printer from
and printers on
the PC you are using
other types of
to wirelessly connect
computers like
to the network.
Macintosh or
3. From the File menu
Linux, see the
of an application
product
such as Microsoft
documentation
Word, use the Print
that came with
Setup feature to
those
direct your print
computers.
output to the printer
on the network.
2-10
What's Needed?
• Windows computers (wired
and wireless) connecting to
the network need to be
configured with the
Windows Client and File
and Print Sharing.
• Windows computers (wired
and wireless) connecting to
the network need to be
configured with the same
Windows Workgroup or
Domain settings as the
other Windows computers
in the combined wireless
and wired network.
• Any Windows networking
security access rights such
as login user name/
password that have been
assigned in the Windows
network must be provided
when Windows prompts for
such information.
• If so-called Windows 'peer'
networking is being used,
the printer needs to be
enabled for sharing.
v1.0, November 2005
How Do I?
Windows Domain settings are
usually managed by corporate
computer support groups.
Windows Workgroup settings are
commonly managed by
individuals who want to set up
small networks in their homes, or
small offices.
For assistance with setting up
Windows networking, see the PC
Networking Tutorial on the
NETGEAR RangeMax Wireless
Router WPN824 Resource CD
and the Help information
provided in the Windows system
you are using.
For assistance with setting up
printers in Windows, see the
Help and Support information
that comes with the version of
the Windows operating systems
you are using.
Introduction