User manual BELKIN F5U104WINXPINSTALLATION

[. . . ] Choose the option, Include this location in the search: and type the path c:\F5U104 (or you can browse to the C:\ and locate the folder that you unzipped the files to) and then click Next. You will see a warning stating that the Belkin USB Direct Connect has not passed Windows Logo testing, Continue Anyway. Click on Finish to complete the first part of installation. Installing the USB Network Adapter 7. [. . . ] Click on, Use the Following IP address: and then Type the address 192 . this can be any numbers you want it to be, but all numbers have to match on each computer except for the last set of numbers. For example: one computer would be 192. 168. 100. 101 and the second computer would be 192. 168. 100. 102. The Subnet mask must be 255. 255. 255. 0 and the Default gateway is not used. 21. After clicking ok, click on the Advanced Tab from the menu and make sure the option, "Protect my computer and the network by limiting or preventing access to this computer from the Internet", is NOT selected. This adapter is used to connect your two computers to each other so it is not allowing access to the internet. If you choose this option, the other computer will not be able to access this computer's files. Next, Click on Start, then go up to My Computer and right click and from the menu left click on Properties. Computer description can be anything because it is not really important. Then look for the option, To rename this computer or join a workgroup. The computer name must be unique to each computer because this is how the computer will be identified to the network. After naming the workgroup, remember this name for your other computer who must be in the same workgroup, then click on ok. 26. For Windows XP Home Users , reboot your system and installation is complete. For Windows XP Professional Users , go to Start, and right click on My Computer and then left click on Manage. Double click on the Guest account and uncheck the selection Account is disabled and click on OK. In order to share files and printers on a Windows XP Professional operating system, you may also create a user account for the other computer to be able to log onto this computer. [. . . ] Go to Start, Run and type c:\windows\inf, if this fails you can try c:\winnt\inf and click ok. Scroll through the list of files and locate the files that start with OEM. Windows creates an OEM and an OEM. PNF file for every device that you install to your system. [. . . ]