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Appendix
Sharing Your Files and Printers
Overview
By sharing your files and printers, other PCs on your network will be able to
access the resources on your PC.
Before sharing your files and printers, you should prepare your computer to be
used with any file servers that may be on the network. If you are not using
Windows 95, 98 or Millennium with an NT, 2000 or NetWare file server, or if
you are not sure if you have a file server, continue below.
If you are using a NetWare or NT file server, refer to the directions in the
Appendix for client setup.
Enabling File Sharing
1. Double-click your My Computer icon. A window of available disk drives
will appear.
2. Using your right mouse button, click once on the drive or folder that you
want to make available to other users.
3. Click on Sharing, followed by the Sharingtab. Click on Share As.
4. In the Share Name box, enter a name for the drive or folder you are sharing.
This can be any drive on your PC—floppy drive, hard drive, CD drive, zip
drive, etc.
5. Decide on the type of access that you want to give
other users.
• Read-Only access allows other users to view the
files on the selected drive.
• Full access allows other users to create, change, or
delete files on the selected drive.
• Depends on Password allows other users to have Read-Only and/or Full
access to the selected drive, depending on the password that you decide to
give them.
NNoottee:: If you are only
using your PCto
access the Internet, it
is highly recommend-
ed that you create
passwords for your
shares.
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Running the Card’s Diagnostics
If you suspect that there may be a problem with the Fast Ethernet Card, or if
you need to identify the card’s MACaddress, you can use the DIAG diagnostic
program on the EtherFast®10/100 LAN Card Driver Disk.
To run the program, start up your computer in DOS. The program only works
in standard “real DOS mode” DOS – it will not work in a Windows DOS win-
dow. To get into “real DOS mode,” do the following:
• In Windows 95, start your computer. When the Starting W indo ws...message
appears, press the F8 key. You will then get to the Microsoft Window
Startup Menu.
• In Windows 98, start your computer (No Starting Windows... message will
appear). Immediately and rapidly press the F8 key until you get the
Microsoft Window Startup Menu.
1. Choose the Safe mode command prompt only option. Press Enteron the
keyboard.
2. Insert the EtherFast®10/100 LAN Card Driver Diskinto drive A. Enter the
appropriate commands after the following prompts:
• When “C:\>” appears, type “a:” then press Enter.
• When “A:\>” appears, type “cd diag” then press Enter.
• When “A:\diag>” appears, type “diag” then press Enter.
You can also copy the software to your local (c:\) drive and run DIAG from
your hard disk.
3. The Fast Ethernet Diagnostics Programwill appear, providing a display of
the card’s basic information (Ethernet Address, IRQ, I/O Port and Media
Type). Press Enterto begin the testing cycle. If the card isn’t found, power
off the PC and ensure that the card is properly seated in the PCIslot.
4. The word “passed” will appear next to each successful test. If the card fails
the Peer-to-Peer, Ping, or Bandwidth tests, any network problems that you
are experiencing are external to the card; check your cabling and hub con-
nections. If the card fails the Loopback or Register tests, check your com-
puter’s settings, then contact Linksys Customer Support for help.