User's Manual

30 Microsoft Broadband Networking Wireless Base Station User’s Guide
You can use My Network Places (or Network Neighborhood, in
Windows 2000 and Windows 98) to view and access all of the
shared files and folders on your network.
My Network Places presents a view of the network similar to the
view of your computer presented by Windows Explorer. Use My
Network Places when you:
• Want to see all the resources available on the network.
• Already know where the resource that you want is located.
• Want to copy files and folders from one network location to
another.
To open My Network Places, click Start, and then click My Network
Places.
To open Network Neighborhood (in Windows 2000 and
Windows 98), double-click Network Neighborhood on your
desktop.
To open a file stored on another computer on the network
In order to complete this procedure, you must have on your local
computer the type of program (such as Microsoft Word or Microsoft
Excel) that was used to create the type of file you’re trying to open.
For example, if you want to open an .xls file, you must already have
Microsoft Excel installed on the computer from which you’re
opening the file.
1. Open My Network Places or Network Neighborhood.
2. Double-click the name of the computer that has the file that you
want to open.
3. Locate the file that you want to open.
4. Double-click the file.
To copy a file from your computer to another place on the
network
1. Open Windows Explorer, My Network Places, or Network
Neighborhood. Your computer and the other computer to which
you want to copy a file will appear in the same window.
2. On your computer (which is often represented by drive letter C:),
locate the file that you want to copy to another computer on the
network.
3. Click to highlight the file.
4. On the Edit menu, click Copy.