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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.
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.
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:
•View a network drive
•Open and copy files stored on other network computers
•Print documents on network printers
Sharingdrives orfolders
To share drives or folders:
1Click (Start), then click Computer.
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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.
3Click the Sharing tab.
If Share is grayed out, click Advanced Sharing to set sharing for this drive/folder.
4Click OK, then click Close.
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