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Sharing resources
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Run the New Connection Wizard
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Make sure that your access point is plugged in and compare the status lights
on the front of the access point with the patterns described in the access point
documentation
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Temporarily turn off any firewall software on your computer
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Turn off all of the devices, then turn them back on
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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:
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View a network drive
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Open and copy files stored on other network computers
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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:
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In 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.