General Networking Questions?

Ok, so I am good with computers in general, but my weakness is Networking by far. so........





1) We had someone set up our network for us, I have no idea how to add a comptuer to my network when I can see my network in "view workgroup computers".





2) I want to set up a server for everyone to be able to save documents on it.





3)Is there any way to combine two networks in the same house to act as one?





4)If I am hosting a website, is a switch safer to use than a Hub?





I need to know how to do everything in the list above, PLEASE HELP ME!!!








thanks!

General Networking Questions?
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3.) yes, it is called network bridge-ing


2.) consider small business server 2003


1.) computer name and ip address unique, same workgroup and subnet mask... then cabling to switch
Reply:1. Simple, when installing such question will be presented to you, to change it, Control Panel -%26gt; System. The "Workgroup or Domain name".





2. Most simplistic way is designate a central computer and have it share its disk space, then there is option on the clients to mount it as a drive, but a myriad of better ways involving domains and Windows NT/descendant Server Edition.





3. See answer to 1.





The above involves to set up NetBIOS over IP properly; or the most proper name is Microsoft SMB network, you may see other names betraying the fact it was an evolved form of a Microsoft networking technology of over 20 years old.





4. no, equal in strength between those two basic network appliances.

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