Older operating systems such as Windows 98 did not require that you set up separate logins for each person. Unless you took extreme measures someone could just hit cancel on the login screen to access the computer anonymously. Where having actual logins on such an old operating system does matter is where you have it [...]

Networking different versions of Windows together may or may not be straightforward depending on which versions of Windows that they are. The older DOS based versions of Windows do not have the same inbuilt security as the newer OS/2 base ones and so may not have all the login/password configuration set up in advance that [...]

While just about all modern computer networks are set up using ethernet, there are some older computers still around which are set up to use different hardware for their networking. You can use computers that use different hardware on the same network provided that you have some way to connect them together. Combining Networks

When you need to find out anything about how your networking is configured and you are using a Linux operating system then the ifconfig command is the place to start. In this article we look at what typing this command in by itself might produce and what all of the cryptic entries in that output [...]

If you have two or more computers in your house then networking them together will make using them much easier than if each is completely independent. Here we look at the basics of what you need to do in order to get your computers talking to one another. Where to Start

Internet Protocol uses what are called “port” numbers to identify different types of communications on the web. Programs ‘listen’ on particular ports to identify the traffic that is intended for them. This article provides a brief introduction to what port numbers are all about and identifies the ports used by some of the most commonly [...]

Sometimes when you ping an address you get a “REQUEST TIMED OUT” response. Other times you might get a “DESTINATION HOST UNREACHABLE” response. These don’t mean the same thing. Ping Responses

Having multiple computers on your network doesn’t mean that you necessarily need to have a separate monitor, keyboard, and mouse for each computer. If you don’t expect to have a different person actually working at each computer all at the same time then it is perfectly feasible to share the same monitor, keyboard, and mouse [...]

In this article on dial up internet connections we look at how we can use internet connection sharing to provide access to the internet from multiple computers on a network while only requiring one of them to have a modem attached. Sharing an Internet Connection

For those people still using a dial up internet connection, the amount of time that you can actually spend connected to the internet will be somewhat more limited than you would get with a broadband connection. By planning out what you are going to do in advance you can arrange things so as to make [...]

Not just Windows NT but also the more recent versions of the operating system (2000, XP, 2003 and Vista) are also covered by this article. If you have windows already installed on your computer then the chances are that you will have networking already installed but if you need to do a reinstall of your [...]