3 Click OK.

Sharing printers

To share printers:

1 Click Start, then click Control Panel. The Control Panel window opens. If your Control Panel is in Category View, click Printers and Other Hardware.

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Click/Double-click the Printers and Faxes icon. The Printers and Faxes window opens.

Right-click the name of the printer you want to share, then click Sharing.

Click Share this printer.

Click OK.

Using the network

After the drives and printers on each network computer are shared, you can:

View shared drives and folders

Map a network drive

Open and copy files stored on other network computers

Print documents on network printers

Viewing shared drives and folders

To view shared drives and folders:

1 Click Start, then click My Network Places. The My Network Places window opens.

2 Click/Double-click Entire Network. The Entire Network window opens. If you do not see the contents of the network after you double-click Entire Network, click entire contents.

3 Double-clickMicrosoft Windows Network.

4 Double-click the name of your workgroup. The names of each of the computers in your workgroup are listed. For more information about workgroups, see “Naming the computers and the workgroup” on page 85.

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