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Windows Networking at Home
You’ve set up a home network and all your computers share the same internet connection. That’s great, but now lets get everything else sharing. Modern versions of Windows are shipped with an easy to setup and use method for sharing printers and files.

You may have experience wit

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

h networks from school or the office. A network can make a big difference around the house, and can save you money on peripherals. For example, you no longer need to buy a printer for each PC in the house. They can all print to the same one. You can also share files and documents between computers. No more burning a file

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

o CD when you want to move it around to other computers.

Prepare the Network
In preparation of setting up the rest of the network, I highly recommend that you choose unique and meaningful names for every computer on the network and put them all in the same workgroup. These simple steps will help you identi

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

fy and find each computer on your network. Open up System in the Control Panel. Switch to the Computer Name tab. Your computer’s name and workgroup are listed below. Click the Change… button to give it a new name. Give each computer a short unique name like “upstairs” or “den”, and place them i

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

same workgroup. The Windows default workgroup is HOME which is just fine. Put HOME in the Workgroup box and click OK. Repeat this for all the computers on your network.

Printer Sharing
Usually the most helpful and timesaving feature of a home network is the ability to share printers. This is pre

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ty easy to setup, but unfortunately some printers simply won’t work over a network. I’ve seen some Dell and some Hewlett Packard printers that for some reason or other could not be made to share. The majority of printers are happy to share over a network.

The first step is to install the printer correctly on the “server” PC

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

. This computer has to be on to receive instructions from the other computers on the network in order to print. After printing a test page to ensure correct installation, open the Printers and Faxes section of the Control Panel. Right-click the printer you wish to share, and select the Sharing… option.

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

Simply click the box next to Share this printer and type a name in for the printer. If your home network has computers using older versions of Windows click the Additional Drivers button. Put checks next to the versions you wish to enable. You may have to install additional drivers from the CD that came with y

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

our printer, or drivers may not be available for these older versions to use this printer. Click OK and the printer will be ready for sharing.

Now we need to get the other computers to use the shared printer. Get on a computer you wish to use the shared printer. We now need to connect to the other computer. There a

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

e several ways to do this, the easiest of which is to type the name of the sharing computer into Internet Explorer. Open IE and type the name of the computer preceded by two back slashes into the Address bar and hit enter. For example, enter “den” or “upstairs”. You can also browse through My Network Places to find i

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

. Open My Network Places then click View workgroup computers. Double click the computer sharing the printer. If you see a message saying you were unable to connect then you most likely have a firewall blocking your attempts. Disable any third party firewalls and try again.

Now right-click the printer and sel

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

ect Connect… A warning will appear, click Yes. At this point the drivers will be downloaded and installed. The printer is now installed on this PC. Close these windows and open the Printers and Faxes icon in the Control Panel. The printer should be listed there. You can make it your default pr

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

nter by right-clicking and selecting Set as Default Printer. Print a test page. Repeat this for all the computers on your network.

File Sharing
Sharing files can also be quite helpful. Sometimes we need to have access to a document from anywhere in the house. Sharing a large file like a video

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

over the network can save a lot of time and the effort of burning it to a CD. Some programs can even be run from another computer over the network.

Sharing a file is as simple as right-clicking the drive or folder in My Computer that you wish to share and selecting Sharing and Security… You can even share you

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

entire hard drive by right-clicking your C drive. If this is your first shared folder or you are sharing a sensitive area you will be presented with a warning. Click when you are ready to continue. Then click the check box next to Share this folder on the network. Choose an appropriate name. The next check box dec

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

des if users will be able to change files in your shared folder. This has to be checked if you want users to be able to save files in this folder or edit files already listed. If this box is checked then anyone can delete the files in this folder as well. As an additional caution, if you have an unsecured wireless network a

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

nyone on the street can read your files and if this second box is checked, delete them all. If you are on a wireless network be sure you have tight security setup and don’t share your most sensitive files.

For other users to access these files they will need to connect to the sharing PC the same way listed in t

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

e section on printers. Either type the name preceded by two back slashes, or browse My Network Places to the computer. The shared folder should appear under the name chosen during the sharing setup. To make this shared folder more accessible you can create a shortcut to the folder, or you can make a network drive. A

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As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

shortcut can be created by simply right-clicking the shared folder and selecting Create Shortcut.

Network Drives
A network drive makes the shared folder available as though it was a hard rive installed on the local computer. Right-click the shared folder and select Map Network Drive… Ch

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ose a drive letter. The checkbox, Reconnect at logon, will make this drive permanent. Otherwise the drive will disappear when the computer is rebooted. Clicking Finish will complete the setup. You should now have a drive which can be accessed like any other, but which shows the files from a different computer

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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