By: Walter Metcalf
Date: 01/03/01

Application Setup (Cont.)

2. Windows Systems

   Go to your Windows Desktop and open the Network Neighborhood folder. You should see the names of any computers that are online, in particular the OS/2 system on your Desktop. If you don't, then I suggest you restart both the OS/2 and Windows computers, and wait a few moments for the LAN to stabilize. Once you see the OS/2 system (Desktop), you may proceed.

   1. Network Neighborhood

      1. Having opened the "Network Neighborhood" folder, look for your OS/2 Desktop computer.

      2. Double-click on this computer name.

      3. You should see several icons, one for each object listed in the "Shared Drive" list in the "Shared Resources and Network Connections", in fact.

      4. Find the one for the drive containing the images you wish to work with, and right-click on it.

      5. From the pop-up list, select "Map network drive".

      6. Click "OK" in the "Map network drive" pop-up box, noting the drive letter Windows assigned to the new drive.

      7. Close the window for the network drive.

      8. Close the window for "Network Neighborhood".

      Note: the Windows procedure for setting up the connection was simpler than the OS/2 procedure only because the actual drive and data actually exist on the OS/2 machine. Sharing a drive is a much more complex process than merely accessing it.

   2. The Application - OmniPage

      1. Start OmniPage 10. For the purposes of this demo, I am using the fully automatic mode.)

      2. Pressing the "Start" button, presents the user with a box very similar to the OS/2 combo box.

      3. Clicking on the equivalent to the "Open" box lists the objects on the Windows Desktop.

      4. Double-clicking on the "My Computer" item in the "Open" box lists all the drives on the Windows computer, including the newly mapped network drive.

      5. Double-click on the network drive. This will present a list of directories on the appropriate drive on the OS/2 system. (Note: Windows will have full access to the directories and files (including long filenames) even on an HPFS drive.)

      6. Search for the correct sub-directory. All the files (i.e. images) will then be listed.

      7. You will then be able to load images and save (or export) processed files to and from this directory on the OS/2 computer just as if it were on the Windows computer.

      8. I suggest you open the same directory on your OS/2 computer and watch the files being created.

      9. Try it! You'll like it!

         Needless to say, OmniPage is only an example. The same procedures above could be used with practically any Windows program.

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—Walter Metcalf

For Further Reading:

Building a Home Network, Part 1: Planning
Series on Networking from Windows Guide, Ed Bott.