Gateway GT4015H manual Testing your network, Sharing resources, Sharing drives and printers

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Testing your network

Now that your home network is set up, log onto one of your computers and access a favorite Internet Web site.

If you are unable to connect to the Internet:

■Run the New Connection Wizard (for more information, see “To use the Internet Connection Wizard:” on page 127)

■Check all physical cable connections

■Compare the status lights on the front of the router or access point with the patterns described in the router or access point literature

■Temporarily turn off any firewall software on your desktop computer

■Turn off all of the devices, then power them back on

■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

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.

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:

■View a network drive

■Open and copy files stored on other network computers

■Print documents on network printers

Sharing drives or folders

If you want to share a drive or folder, use the following instructions.

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.

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