If youāre looking for a great book to help you learn more about Windows home networking, thereās a new book on the market by our good friend Ciprian, and published by none other than Microsoft Press.
Note: our friend Ciprian has been a guest contributor here on How-To Geek in the past, and heās not only a geek that knows what heās talking about, heās also one of the more honest and decent people Iāve worked with. In his spare time, he runs the 7 Tutorials web site.
The Book
One of the great things about this book is that you arenāt limited to just Windows networkingāit also explains how to connect Windows 7, XP, Vista, Mac OS X, and even Linux on the same network and share folders and devices between them.
Everything in the book is written in a typical How-To Geek step-by-step format, with plenty of screenshots and pictures to help you through the process.
Book Outline
If youāre going to be spending some money on the book, you probably want to know what itās all about, and since the Amazon page doesnāt give, well, much information at all, hereās the entire outline for you:
- Setting Up a Router and Devices
- Setting User Account on All Computers
- Setting Up Your Libraries on All Windows 7 Computers
- Creating the Network
- Customizing Network Sharing Settings in Windows 7
- Creating the Homegroup and Joining Windows 7 Computers
- Sharing Libraries and Folders
- Sharing and Working with Devices
- Streaming Media Over the Network and the Internet
- Sharing Between Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 Computers
- Sharing Between Mac OS X and Windows 7 Computers
- Sharing Between Ubuntu Linux and Windows 7 Computers
- Keeping the Network Secure
- Setting Up Parental Controls
- Troubleshooting Network and Internet Problems
Itās a great book, with loads of information, and compared to most tech books isnāt very expensiveāonly $19.79 for the paperback and $9.99 for the Kindle version. Well worth it, and hey, itās an official Microsoft Press bookāwritten by a How-To Geek guest author.
Network Your Computers & Devices Step by Step [Amazon]