Gateway 200ARC, Network Manual

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Using Your Ethernet Network
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To access the Internet from your computer:
1
Make sure that the router or access point is turned on.
2
Open Internet Explorer.
Sharing drives and printers
With a network, you can share drives (for example hard drives, diskette drives,
and CD or 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
Before you can share your drives and printers, you need to turn on Windows
file and printer sharing on
all the network computers.
To turn on Windows file and printer sharing:
1
In Windows XP, click
Start
, then click
Control Panel
. The Control Panel
window opens. If your Control Panel is in Category View, click
Network
and Internet Connections
.
-OR-
In Windows 2000, click
Start
,
Settings
, then click
Control Panel
. The Control
Panel window opens.
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.