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File and Printersharing
Windows 98/ME
To enable File and Printersharing on your network, Right click the icon ‘Network Neighbourhood’ on the
desktop, choose ‘properties’. Click the ‘file and printersharing” button. Simply click the two boxes you see in
the resulting dialog box, then click OK. But before you reboot your computer, you’ll need to check a few other
settings.
• Click the Identification tab in the Network Control Panel. Enter a unique COMPUTERNAME, and a brief
description of your computer in the Computer Description slot. The WORKGROUP name you assign to each
computer must be exactly the same for every computer on your network.
• Sharing Files and folders:
When you want to share a hard drive (or any other storage device) on one machine with all of the other
machines on the network, simply right-click the drive letter or folder you wish to share, then select Sharing
from the pop-up menu. After you select Sharing, you’ll be presented with a dialog box containing several
options. Type in the Share Name, add a comment, and set the access type. If you choose Read Only, other
computers on the network will be prevented from copying files into the shared drive or folder. If you select
Full, any machine on the network will be able to write to them as well.
• Sharing printers:
Click ‘start’, ‘settings’, and ‘printers’. Right click the printer you want to share on the network and choose
“sharing”. In the following screen enable sharing and fill in a sharename, the printer is now shared. To use
the network printer on other PCs in the network, it has to be installed on the other PCs first. Click ‘start’,
‘settings’, and ‘printers’. Click the ‘Add New Printer’ icon. The ‘New Printer Wizard’ starts. Choose ‘network
printer’. In the following screen browse to the correct printer via network environment. The printer will now
be installed. Repeat this steps for all PC’s in the network. The printer can now be used from every PC in the
network.
Windows 2000/XP
File and Printer sharing will be installed automatically under Windows 2000/XP. Sharing files, folders and
printers is the same as under Windows 98/ME, however assigning the computer and workgroup name as in
step one is different.
Windows 2000
Right click the ‘My Computer’ icon on the desktop, choose ‘properties’. Click the ‘computer name’ tab. Fill in
the COMPUTERNAME and the WORKGROUPNAME by the same specifications as Windows 98/ME
Windows XP
Click ‘start’. Right click the ‘My Computer’ icon, choose ‘properties’. Click the ‘computer name’ tab. Fill in the
COMPUTERNAME and the WORKGROUPNAME by the same specifications as Windows 98/ME.