1 Leopard + 6 Tigers

Hi - I am setting up a small school group.
I have a MBP17" running Leopard
They have 6 iBooks running Tiger
Could someone please direct me to a really simple explanation (idiot's guide) as to how to
1. Hook all these up via airport
2. What you can do now they are hooked up (I want mine to be in charge). Where can I see theirs..Finder?
Sorry I'm sure its not too difficult but I have stumbled again!
Many many thanks
Pete in London

You are leaving a lot of the details out, especially regarding the environment. Since you have not mentioned anything about internet access, if there is an existing LAN with a wireless base station, etc., I am going to assume that you have none of these and the machines will be used for instructional use only but no access to the internet or public or entity email. If my assumptions are wrong, then part of this does not apply:
1: Setting up an ad-hoc wireless network
If you want your Leopard Mac Book to be the master, go to the Airport menuette and select "Create Network." This will bring up a box that will let you define a name, select a channel, and optionally require a password (probably a good idea but not bullet proof). This will make you Mac Book the "base station" that other can connect to.
2: From all of the Tiger systems, go to the Airport menuette and select the network that you just created from the list of networks. Enter password if you defined one.
Now you have a mini network in which all systems can see each other. If you want to control the Tiger systems, then open System Preferences on on the Tiger machines and enable Apple Remote Desktop. Configure it so you can at least observe and control. Then on the Leopard system, dig deep into /System/Library/CoreServices/ and find the application Screen Sharing. You can use it to control and observe the other systems. For a great article on extending the capabilities of Screen Sharing, head over to http://www.macworld.com/article/131985/2008/02/2503geekfactor.html - this includes enabling a Bounjour browser.
And finally, if you want to provide file services, then from the Leopard system, go to System Preferences > Sharing and enable File Sharing. Choose the Options... button to enable only AFP and then define who can access the system.
With limited environment knowledge, I hope this helps.

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