text: home network installation instructions? i need to have some type of a schematic to see how a home network installations is done with 2 or more pc's and i want to share a printer between all the pcs in the network 1. all the computers you want to connect must have network cards 2. connect the computers to a switch using straight utp cables 3. assing ip addresses from the same class to all computers(use a private class, eg. 192.168.1.0 then youtre computers would have the addresses: 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2 etc. and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0). make sure all youre computers are in the same workgroup 4. if the printer has a network card connect it to the network and assign it an ip address (like explained for the computers). the u set up set up printing using the printers network address. if it doesn't have a network card connect it to a computer and turn that computer into a print server (or buy a print server if you wish) and set up printing on the other computers by pointing them to the print server (on the print server make sure the printer is shared)