How do you set up a Windows Vista Home Basic desktop (wired) and a Windows 7 Home Premium laptop (wifi) on a home network so that they can share files and the printers connected to the desktop? The Win7 laptop may also be used on other networks.
I'm going to have to set this up for my parents when I visit shortly. I currently use XP and am not really familiar with Vista or Win7 network setup.
Would it be difficult to share between the Vista and Win7 machines and and XP machine? If not, how to add that?
Best Answer
If I understand the question correctly and assuming you have a wireless router for DHCP . You right click on the My Computer and go to properties and put both systems in the same workgroup. Reboot and see if you can ping the two computers from each other.
I would also set up the two computers first connected without wireless confirming they can see each other. Then configure secure wireless