In this lab you’re going to set up a simple star physical network using three or four computers in your group.
Get the following:
8 Two or three computers running server or workstation
8 Enable file and print sharing on both computers
8 A small network hub or unmanaged switch
8 Cabling for each computer
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Log off and turn off the computers. |
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Obtain a hub. Connect each network computer to a hub. You are not going to connect this hub to one of our routers. We want just a simple peer to peer network. |
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Turn the computers back on and log in locally. |
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Change the computers from working within a domain into a workgroup. Each computer must have a unique computer name, but the workgroup names should all be netplus. |
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In my network places, view entire network. Find the Netplus workgroup and double click. |
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What do you see? |
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Unplug one of the computers. What happens to the light on the NIC? |
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What happens to the light on the hub? |
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What do those lights indicate? |
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View my network places, entire network. What do you see? |
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Why? |
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Reconnect your workstations to the classroom network. |
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Rejoin the domain as before. |
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Draw a picture of your network below and label the path of the data. |