4.
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.
Guest Account Windows 2000
When you want to reach a shared file or folder in the network on a Windows 2000
machine, most of the time you are requested for a password. This is due to the fact the
