Computers in the modern school are not only a computer science class. There are computers in the school administration, in the accounting department, and in the library. Connecting school computers to the network, ensuring the normal operation of the network is the responsibility of the network administrator. But even a non-professional user is able to configure and maintain a school local area network.
Necessary
- - Computers equipped with network cards and interconnected by a "crossover" cable;
- - installed fresh drivers for the network card and the motherboard chipset.
Instructions
Step 1
To check the performance of the network card, run the "Device Manager". To do this, select "Control Panel" from the "Start" menu. Click on "Hardware and Sound" → "Device Manager".
Step 2
Make sure the network card is installed correctly. Check in the "Manager" item "Network adapters". There should be no exclamation or question marks around this item. Reinstall the network card driver if necessary.
Step 3
Install network protocols and services. To do this, open the "Network Connections" folder. Click Start, select Control Panel → Network Connections. In the "Network and Internet" section, click "Network and Sharing Center".
Step 4
In the “Local Area Connection” column, find “Properties”. In the properties tab, check the default Windows installed protocols and services. If necessary, configure, install or remove the components offered in the window.
Step 5
Configure the IP address. Go to "Control Panel" → "Network and Sharing Center". Select the "Local Area Connection" section and click on the "View Status" link. In the window that appears, click the "Properties" button.
Step 6
From the offered list of components, select the Internet protocol depending on the OS of your computer. If your OS is WindowsXP, select Internet Protocol (TCP / IP). For later OS - "Internet Protocol version 4 (TCP / IPv4). Then click "Properties".
Step 7
In the properties window that appears, change the switch from "Obtain an IP address automatically" to "Use the following IP address". Then make sure that the "IP address" and "Subnet mask" fields are available. Enter IP values from the range 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8, or 172.16.0.0/12.
Step 8
If, when the school connects to the Internet, you were provided with IP addresses in a specific range, select addresses from that range. If you need to configure the computer's access to the Internet directly, in addition to the IP address and subnet mask, set the values for the default gateway and DNS servers. These values are given along with a range of IP addresses when connected to the Internet.
Step 9
Identify your computer. Right-click on the My Computer icon. Select Properties from the menu that appears. Open the subsection "Computer name" → "Change". Enter the name of the computer and workgroup in Latin letters. The name of the workgroup must be the same for all computers on the network, and the name for each PC must be unique. Click OK.
