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Chapter 4: Networking 29
2. Use Windows (Network Neighborhood, My Network Places, or
Windows Explorer) to access the shared files and folders.
To make your files and folders available to the network
While setting up your broadband network, you may have chosen to
share all of your files and folders with the network. If you decide
that you only want to share some of your files and folders with the
network, you can use Microsoft Windows
to specify which files and
folders to share.
You can share an entire drive with the network, or you can share
specific folders. Let’s say that you store photographs of your
children in a folder named “Kids” on your computer, and you want
to make the photographs available to your network. In this case,
you would share the Kids folder, and not share the other folders on
your computer.
Only the computer users on your network will have access to the
files you share. At times, you may want to prevent users, such as
your children or your roommates, from accessing particular folders
and the files they contain. If you want to increase the security of
your shared files, you can assign permissions and passwords to
your files and folders. For more information, look up “permission”
and “access control” in Windows Help. (In Microsoft Windows
Millennium Edition, look up “controlling access.”)
Although you can share files, printers, and other devices on your
network, you cannot share software products such as Microsoft
Word or Microsoft Excel. Each computer on the network must have
those programs installed, and then you can share the files that you
create within those programs.
For a computer’s files and folders to be available to the network,
the computer must be turned on and logged into the network. Also,
if the computer is turned on but in sleep mode, it will not be
accessible from the network. For more information, look up “power
options” in Windows XP Help, or “power management” in Windows
Me, Windows 2000, and Microsoft Windows 98 Help.
To access and organize your files
Windows Explorer displays the hierarchical structure of files,
folders, and drives on your computer. Using Windows Explorer, you
can copy, move, rename, and search for files and folders. For
example, you can open a folder that contains a file that you want to
copy or move, and then drag the file to another folder or drive.
To open Windows Explorer, click Start , point to All Programs (or
Programs , depending on your version of Windows), point to
Accessories , and then click Windows Explorer . (In some versions
of Windows, you can skip the Accessories step.)
For more information about using Windows Explorer, see Windows
Help.