This presentation is part of our reports in our Operating System Concepts subject. Included in the presentation are topics about Installing Windows XP, Peer to peer networking, File Sharing, Printer Sharing and Net meeting configuration.

2. Peer to peer connection

3. Printer Sharing

4. File Sharing

6. It was first released in August 2001

7. It was the most popular versions of Windows, based on installed user based.

9. Windows XP is the successor to both Windows 2000 and Windows ME

10. The most common edition were Windows XP Home edition for home users and Windows XP Professional which support Windows server domain and two physical processors.

12. 64 Megabytes (MB) of RAM

13. 1.5 Gigabytes of available space on hard disk

14. CD Rom or DVD Rom drive

17. Locate your Windows XP product key.

21. Insert your Windows XP CD into your computer CD Rom and restart.

22. If prompted to boot from the CD, press any key on your keyboard or just press on the spacebar key.

23. If you miss the prompt as it only appearsin few seconds, restart and try again.

29. When the Monitor Settings dialog box appears, click OK.

36. Peer to peer connection - The computers in a workgroup are considered peers because they are all equal and share resources among each other. - Each user decides which data on his or her computer will be shared with the network. By sharing common resources, users can print from a single printer, access information in shared folders, and work on a single file without transferring it to a floppy disk.

37. Peer to peer connection - A home or small office network is like a telephone system. On a network, each computer has a network adapter that acts like a phone handset: just as you use a handset for talking and listening, the computer uses the network device to send and receive information to and from other computers on the network.

39. Share one Internet connection with all of the computers on the network.

41. Peer to peer connection - The typical computing model for many applications is a client/server model. A server computer typically has vast resources and responds to requests for resources and data from client computers. Client computers initiate requests for resources or data from server computers. A good example of the client/server model of computing is Web browsing.

42. Peer to peer connection - Web servers on the Internet are typically high-end dedicated server computers with very fast processors (or multiple processors) and huge hard disk arrays. The Web server stores all of the content associated with a Web site (HTML files, graphics, audio and video files, etc.) and listens for incoming requests to view the information on a particular Web page. When a page is requested, the Web server sends the page and its associated files to the requesting client.

43. Peer to peer connection - Peer-to-peer networking has the following advantages over client/server networking: 1. Content and resources can be shared from both the center and the edge of the network. In client/server networking, content and resources are typically shared from only the center of the network. 2. A network of peers is easily scaled and more reliable than a single server. A single server is subject to a single point of failure or can be a bottleneck in times of high network utilization.

44. Peer to peer connection 3. A network of peers can share its processor, consolidating computing resources for distributed computing tasks, rather than relying on a single computer, such as a supercomputer. 4. Shared resources of peer computers can be directly accessed. Rather than sharing a file stored on a central server, a peer can share the file directly from its local storage.

45. Peer to peer connection - Peer-to-peer networking solves the following problems: 1. Allows the processing resources of edge computers to be utilized for distributed computing tasks. 2. Allows local resources to be shared directly, without the need for intermediate servers. 3. Allows efficient multipoint communication without having to rely on IP multicast infrastructure.

46. Peer to peer networking scenarios - Peer-to-peer networking enables or enhances the following scenarios: 1. Real-time communications (RTC). 2. Collaboration 3. Content distribution 4. Distributed processing 5. Improved Internet technologies

47. Real-Time Communications - For RTC, peer-to-peer networking enables server less instant messaging and real-time matchmaking and game play. 1. Server less instant messaging : Computer users can chat and have voice or video conversations with their peers today. However, many of the existing programs and their communications protocols rely on servers to function. If you are participating in an ad-hoc wireless network or are a part of an isolated network, you are unable to use these RTC facilities. Peer-to-peer technology allows the extension of RTC technologies to these additional networking environments.

48. Real-Time Communications 2. Real-time matchmaking and game play: Similar to RTC, real-time game play exists today. There are many Web-based game sites that cater to the gaming community via the Internet. They offer the ability to find other gamers with similar interests and play a game together. The problem is that the game sites exist only on the Internet and are geared toward the avid gamer who wants to play against the best gamers in the world.

49. Real-Time Communications These sites track and provide the statistics to help in the process. However, these sites do not allow a gamer to set up an ad-hoc game among friends in a variety of networking environments. Peer-to-peer networking can provide this capability.

50. Collaboration - Peer-to-peer networking allows the sharing of a workspace, files, and experiences. 1. Project workspaces solving a goal: Shared workspace applications allow for the creation of ad-hoc workgroups and then allow the workgroup owners to populate the shared workspace with the tools and content that will allow the group to solve a problem. This could include message boards, productivity tools, and files.

51. Collaboration 2. Sharing your files with other people: A subset of project workspace sharing is the ability to share files. Although this ability exists today with the current version of Windows, it can be enhanced through peer-to-peer networking to make file content available in an easy and friendly way. Allowing easy access to the incredible wealth of content at the edge of the Internet or in ad-hoc computing environments increases the value of network computing.

52. Content Distribution - Peer-to-peer networking allows the distribution of text, audio, and video and software product updates.

53. Distributed Processing - Peer-to-peer networking allows computing tasks to be distributed and processor resources to be aggregated. A large computing task can first be divided into separate smaller computing tasks well suited to the computing resources of a peer. A peer could do the dividing of the large computing task. Then, peer-to-peer networking can distribute the individual tasks to the separate peers in the group. Each peer performs its computing task and reports its result back to a centralized accumulation point.

54. Improved Internet Technologies Peer-to-peer networking can also provide an improved utilization of the Internet and support new Internet technologies. Historically, the Internet was designed so that network peers can have end-to-end connectivity. The modern-day Internet, however, more closely resembles a client/server environment where communication in many cases is not end-to-end due to the prevalence of Network Address Translators (NATs).

55. Example of Peer to Peer connection w/o central infrastructure

56. Peer to Peer connection using X graph

67. The icon for the shared folder appears with a picture of a hand.

68. To access the shared folder, click Start, click My Computer, and then click My Network Places.

74. If you are using Classic view in Control Panel, double-click Printers and Faxes.

81. Remove the check mark on the second option

87. Ad hoc networking – means “for or concerned with one specific purpose”. In networking, the computer to computer direct networking is called ad hoc.

88. NAT - Network Address Translation is a process of modifying network address information in datagram ( IP ) packet headers while in transit acrossa traffic routing device for the purpose of re-mapping one IP address space into another.

90. IPV4 – Internet Protocol Version 4 is the first major version of IP.

91. IPV6 – Internet Protocol Version 6 is the successor of IPV4 and is in active growing Deployment worldwide.