eMachines H3120 manual Sharing resources, Sharing drives and printers, Sharing drives or folders

CHAPTER 6: Networking Your Computer www.emachines.com

■Refer to your router’s or access point’s troubleshooting information

■Contact your Internet service provider

Sharing resources

With a network, you can share your Internet connection, drives, and printers.

Sharing drives and printers

With a network, you can share drives (for example hard drives and DVD drives) and printers among the computers connected to the network.

After the drives and printers on each network computer are shared, you can access them as though they were attached directly to your computer. Then you can:

Important

To share a printer among the network computers, each computer must have the shared printer’s drivers installed. Follow the instructions included with your printer to install the printer drivers on each computer.

■View a network drive

■Open and copy files stored on other network computers

■Print documents on network printers

Sharing drives or folders

To share drives or folders:

1In My Computer or Windows Explorer, right-click the drive or folder that you want to share, then click Sharing and Security. The folder properties dialog box opens.

If you share a drive, the entire contents of that drive will be available to everyone on your network. If you share a folder, only the contents of that folder will be available to everyone on the network.

2Click the Sharing tab.

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