Configuring Your Ad Hoc Network with WEP Security

1.Under Preferred networks, click the name of your wireless ad hoc network.

2.Click Properties.

3.Click Open in the Network Authentication list.

4.Click WEP in the Data encryption list.

5.Type the WEP network key in the Network key box. Your network key must exactly match the network key of the other computers in your ad hoc network. Your network key is either 5 or 13 ASCII (text) characters, or 10 or 26 hexadecimal (0-9, A-F) characters.

6.Type this key again in the Confirm key box.

7.Click OK.

8.Click OK.

Your ad hoc network configuration is now complete. For information about the status of your connection, see Viewing the Status of Your Wireless Connection on page 39.

Connecting the PCs

1.Select one of the laptops, right click My Computer and select Map Network Drive. In the dropdown list, select a free hardrive name that is not occupied by any other name.

2.Type \\laptop name or IP address\C$ into the Folder field. For example, enter \\192.168.0.1\C$ to connect to the 1st laptop we set up. C$ is specifying the drive on the laptop that you want to connect to.

Note:

To find a computers name, open a Command Prompt on the PC you want to find the name of. Type hostname and press return. The computer name is returned.

Note:

You can also use a Command Prompt to make sure you can see the other PC. Type ping <IP address> and press return (The IP address belongs to the PC you are trying to contact). In the example, we would enter ping 192.168.0.1. PC 1 sends a small amount of data to PC 2, and if connection is established between the PCs, replies for each packet of data sent are returned to PC 1.

3.If you are required to log on to the PC before access is granted, select Connect using a different user name. Make sure you have an alias and password set-up on the PC you are connecting to.

4.Enter your User name and Password into the Connect As... dialog.

5.Click OK and Finish.

After a while, a new window should popup in PC2 showing the hardrive of PC1. It is also listed with your Network Drives.

Tip:

See your Windows® documentation for further details on setting up a network of Windows® PCs.

Caution!

Unwanted users may try to connect to your ad hoc network. Use of security features such as WEP is recommended.

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Advanced Wireless LAN Features