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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 or Windows 98 with an NT 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, go to page 39 or 40, respective-
ly, for client setup.
Enabling File Sharing
1. On your Desktop, 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 Sharing tab. Click on Share As.
4. In the Share Name box, enter a name for the drive or folder you are shar-
ing. 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 lets other users view the files
on the selected drive.
• Full access lets users create, change, or delete files on the selected drive.
• Depends on Password lets users have Read-Only and/or Full access to
the selected drive, depending on the password that you decide to give
them.
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10. In Network Neighborhood you can only see computers running the same
operating system as your computer (i.e., your PC is running Windows 95 and it
can only see other Windows 95 computers and not any computer running
Windows 98).
• Choose Start, Find, Computer and type the name of the computer in the
window that comes up and click Find Now.
• Now make sure that the you are using the same protocol(s) and work-
group name on the 95 and 98 computers. To do this, click Start,
Settings, Control Panel on two computers running different Windows
operating systems. Click on the Network icon, choose the
Configuration tab. Compare the protocols on both computers and make
sure that they are the same. If any protocols are missing, refer to page 44
to install any needed protocol(s).
• If all computers are using the same protocol(s) and Workgroup name (in
Identification tab), and Windows 95 computers can't see Windows 98
computers, enable NetBIOS on all the computers using Windows 95 and
98. Follow these instructions:
• The IPX/SPX-compatible protocol should be installed on all Windows
computers (see page 44 if you need to add this protocol). Bring up the
properties of the IPX/SPX-compatible protocol by clicking on Start,
Settings, Control Panel, then double-click the Network icon. Choose
the Configuration tab and highlight IPX/SPX-compatible Protocol. Click
on Properties. Now, to install NetBIOS, click on the NetBIOS tab. Put a
check next to I want to enable NetBIOS over IPX/SPX. Click OK, then
OK again. Windows will copy the appropriate files to your computer.
When asked to restart your PC, remove any floppy disks and click OK.
Be sure to do this on all of your computers that are having trouble seeing
your entire network.
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e:: If you are only
using your PC to
access the Internet, it
is highly recommend-
ed that you use pass-
words for your shares.
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