Boca Research 10/100 Appendix, Sharing Your Files and Printers, Overview, Enabling File Sharing

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Appendix

Sharing Your Files and Printers

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 95 or 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 a NetWare or NT file server, go to page 53 or 54, respective- ly, 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.

	Note: If you are only
5. Decide on the type of access that you want to give	using your PC to
other users.	access the Internet, it
	is highly recommend-
• Read-Only access lets other users view the files on	ed that you use pass-
	words for your shares.
the selected drive.

•Full access lets users create, change, or delete files on the selected drive.

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

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