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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.
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
To share drives or folders:
1 Click (Start), then click Computer.
2 Right-click the drive or folder that you want to share, then click Share. The 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.
3 Click the Sharing tab.
If Share is grayed out, click Advanced Sharing to set sharing for this drive/folder.
4 Click OK, then click Close.
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.
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