Sharing Your Files and Printers in Windows

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Sharing Your Files and Printers in Windows 98

Overview

By sharing your files and printers, other PCs on your network will be able to access the resources on your PC.

Before sharing your files and printers, you should prepare your computer to be used with any file servers that may be on the network. If you are not using Windows 98 with an NT or NetWare file server, or if you are not sure if you have a file server, continue below.

If you are using an NT or NetWare file server, go to page 26 for client setup.

Enabling File Sharing

1.Double-click your My Computer icon. A window of available disk drives will appear.

2.Using your right mouse button, click once on the drive or folder that you want to make available to other users.

3.Click on Sharing, followed by the Sharing tab. Click on Share As.

4.In the Share Name box, enter a name for the drive or folder you are shar- ing. This can be any drive on your PC—floppy drive, hard drive, CD drive, zip drive, etc.

5.Decide on the type of access that you want to give other users.

•Read-Only access allows other users to view the files on the selected drive or folder.

•Full access allows other users to create, change, or delete files on the selected drive or folder.

•Depends on Password allows other users to have Read-Only and/or Full access to the selected drive or folder, depending on the password that you decide to give them.

Note: If you are only using your PC to access the Internet, it is highly recommend- ed that you create passwords for your shares.

6.If you want to assign access passwords, type the passwords into the Password boxes.