Gateway PLU-300 User Manual
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Contents
Setting Up Your Powerline Adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Step 1: Installing the hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . 2
Step 1: Installing the hardware and software . . . . . . . . . . 2
About network configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Naming the computers and the workgroup . . . . . . 10
Naming the computers and the workgroup . . . . . . 10
Turning the powerline adapter off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Where to go from here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Where to go from here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Sharing Your Network Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Sharing an Internet connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Sharing drives and printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Sharing an Internet connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Sharing drives and printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Turning on Windows file and printer sharing . . . . . 38
Sharing drives or folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Un-sharing drives, folders, and files . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sharing printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sharing drives or folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Un-sharing drives, folders, and files . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sharing printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Viewing shared drives and folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Mapping a Network Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Opening files across the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Copying files across the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Printing files across the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Mapping a Network Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Opening files across the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Copying files across the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Printing files across the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using the Powerline Adapter Configuration Utility . . 47
About the Powerline configuration utility . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
About the Powerline configuration utility . . . . . . . . . . . . 48