Installation Abstract from Peer to Peer Seminar
Protocol
Protocol is the format or standards that enable machines to talk
to each other.
Protocols:
1) NetBEUI -(NetBIOS Extended User Interface)  Pronounced
"net-booey."  The transport layer for NetBIOS.  NetBIOS and
NetBEUI were originally part of a single protocol suite that was
later separated.  NetBIOS sessions can be transported over
NetBEUI, TCP/IP and SPX/IPX protocols.
2) IPX  - (Internetwork Packet EXchange)  A NetWare
communications protocol used to route messages from one node to
another.  IPX packets include network addresses and can be routed
from one network to another.  An IPX packet can occasionally get
lost when crossing networks, thus IPX does not guarantee delivery
of a complete message.  Either the application has to provide
that control or NetWare's SPX protocol must be used.
3) TCP/IP   - (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) A
communications protocol developed under contract from the U.S.
Department of Defense to internetwork dissimilar systems. 
Invented by Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn, this de facto UNIX standard
is the protocol of the Internet and has become the global
standard for communications.
Import of Protocols:
Members of a Workgroup must use the same Protocol.  If they don't
use the same Protocol, they only can talk to each other
indirectly via another workgroup that speaks their language and
that of the foreign workgroup.
Installation
My Computer/ Control Panel/ Network/ Configuration tab/ Add..
Client - select Microsoft Networks 
Protocol - select Microsoft, then NetBEUI
Dial-Up Adapter - Client for Microsoft
File and Print Sharing - yes
........Identification tab/
Computer name - create unique name (cannot be the same as any
other machine in the workgroup)
Workgroup - every machine in the workgroup must have the EXACT
same workgroup name here, or they will not be able to
communicate.
Sharing drives/directories
My Computer/right-click on C: Drive/ Properties/ Sharing tab
Shared
Access type - select option
Once the resource has been changed to be shared, the icon for the
resource will have a small hand over it.
Printers that are not local will have a bar across the icon, the
hand for shared.  A remote printer can be set as default.
Verify the change in access by clicking on Network Neighborhood. 
It will list the resources available to that machine.  It also
lists "self" to show the resources that you are sharing.
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486DX C                                                          
                                                                
(the 486 C:)
                                                                 
                                                                
486DX CD                                                        
(CD ROM on same)