Linksys HomeLink Series | Linksys USB100H1 specification

Linksys HomeLink™ Series

•Try connecting your PCs using only the phone wire provided with the HomeLink adapter. Disconnect your PCs from any phone jacks and remove any telephone, modem, or other device that you have connected to the HomeLink adapters.

•If the PCs are far away from each other, bring them close to each other and try connecting them directly together. This test will determine whether your phone line or your HomeLink hardware is causing your net- work to malfunction.

•Ensure that the other PC is turned on!

6.I’ve decided that I don’t want to share a drive or printer anymore, or I have decided to physically remove a drive or printer from my network.

•You’re going to have to reconfigure your File and Printer Sharing settings manually. To do so, double-click on your My Computer icon. Click on the Printers folder. A window of available printers will appear. Using your right mouse button, click once on the printer that you want to dis- able on the network. Click on Sharing, followed by the Sharing tab. Click on Not Shared. When you're done, click on the Apply button, fol- lowed by OK.

•You can disable shared drives in the same way. In Windows Explorer, right-click on the drive you want to stop sharing. Click on Sharing, fol- lowed by the Sharing tab. Click on Not Shared. When you're done, click on the Apply button, followed by OK.

7.In Network Neighborhood, you can only see computers running the same operating system as you. For example, since you are running Windows 98, you can only see other Windows 98 computers and not any computer running Windows 95.

•Click Start, Find, then Computer and type the name of any other com- puter in the window that comes up. Click Find Now.

•Make sure that you are using the same protocols and workgroup names on the computers. To do this, click on Start, Settings, Control Panel, then double-click on the Network icon. Click on the Configuration tab and verify your protocol settings. If any protocols are missing, add any needed protocol(s) using the Add button in the Network window. Next, click on the Identification tab for Workgroup settings. Make sure they are consistent with your other PCs.

•If all computers are using the same protocol(s) and Workgroup name, and Windows 95 computers can't see Windows 98 computers, enable NetBIOS on all the computers using Windows 95 and 98.

•IPX/SPX-compatible Protocol should be installed on all computers.

•Bring up the properties of the IPX/SPX-compatible Protocol. To do this,