I'm with Mark on needing a better understanding of setting up a "real" network. I've made lots of little tactical decisions putting up a wireless network many years ago, but now that I want to do more than just have multiple PCs accessing the internet, I'm not so sure what to do.
I've PM'd some here to discuss NAS. I've got my PS3 on the network. And I want to be able to backup PCs and share/stream files, etc. But I haven't found anything that gives me a real overview/framework for how networking really works in a Windows environment. Why do I see some folders and not others? How does Windows, conceptually, view a network?
Not sure I'm asking the crowd here to answer per se, but I didn't get what I needed from the about.com links. So are there any others? Perhaps seeing a "step-by-step how-to" for a non-Vista windows environment would help me understand what the key steps are and why.
Thanks,
Rich
