Apple Duo 270C manual Sharing your own files, How file sharing works, Turning file sharing on

Sharing your own files

You can share files stored on your computer with others on the network. For example, members of your work group can connect to your computer and open a file from their own computers. (They do not have to be using System 7.) Or, if you have both a desktop Macintosh and a PowerBook computer, you can transfer files from one computer to the other without using floppy disks.

You control what you share and with whom you share it:

nYou share only the items you specify.

nYou share only with the people you specify—one person, a group of people, or everyone on the network.

nYou can see everything on your own computer from another computer on the network.

How file sharing works

There are three steps to sharing a folder or disk:

1.Turn on file sharing.

2.Select a folder or disk to share.

3.Decide whom to share it with.

The folder or disk you share is not accessible to anyone but you until you choose whom to share it with.

Turning file sharing on

1.Choose Control Panels from the Apple (K) menu and open the Sharing Setup icon.

Make sure the boxes in the Network Identity section of the control panel are filled in.

2.In the section labeled File Sharing, click the Start button.

Click here to start file sharing.

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