Remove Home Network

I am removing the Master Computer that set up the original network.

Before doing so, I want to set up the new network on my replacement computer
to connect to my laptop.

These are NOT wireless connections.

How do I remove "MSHOME" network from the original computer?

AGAIN - I want to set the new network up FIRST before shutting down the old
computer completely

MSHOME isn't a network as such, it's just a default workgroup name.

Replacing a server would involve firstly examining exactly what services
that server provides. There is no stock answer to this, if I was called-in to
replace a server (that I hadn't installed myself) I would be inclined to
spend some time making sure I understood exactly what role the server was
playing, and what the requirements for its replacement were.

The steps required would also depend on wheter the server in-question is an
Active Directory controller, or not. If the workgroup is MSHOME that tends
to suggest XP Home, though, in which case the network probably isn't
domain-based.

You can add a new server computer, provided it has a different name and IP
address from the existing one. Quite often this is a preferable approach as
it allows a more graceful hand-over from one to the other once all files have
been transferred.

Great response Ian!

You actually hit upon a clarification I should have made up front last
evening. Shows what happens when you are frustrated at 11:00 pm with
computer stuff.

Actually, what I'd like to do is remove the MSHOME workgroup from the
original PC that set up the workgroup, and set up a new one on the
replacement PC.

The Old Computer is running XP Pro, but not using any of the added
networking features. The New Computer is running XP Home, but will probably
be upgraded to XP Pro once the old computer is out of commission.

That being said, how do I decomission the MSHOME workgroup and so I can set
up the new workgroup cleanly on the new computer?

Thanks much!

Jay

"Ian" wrote:

> MSHOME isn't a network as such, it's just a default workgroup name.
>
> Replacing a server would involve firstly examining exactly what services
> that server provides. There is no stock answer to this, if I was called-in to
> replace a server (that I hadn't installed myself) I would be inclined to
> spend some time making sure I understood exactly what role the server was
> playing, and what the requirements for its replacement were.
>
> The steps required would also depend on wheter the server in-question is an
> Active Directory controller, or not. If the workgroup is MSHOME that tends
> to suggest XP Home, though, in which case the network probably isn't
> domain-based.
>
> You can add a new server computer, provided it has a different name and IP
> address from the existing one. Quite often this is a preferable approach as
> it allows a more graceful hand-over from one to the other once all files have
> been transferred.
>
>