User's Manual

Microsoft Wireless Home Networking USB Adapter or PC Card Adapter 27
Share Files and Folders
Through Windows, you can make some or all of the files
on your computer available to the other computers on the
network. You can also share an entire drive with the
network or share specific folders.
Let’s say that you store photographs of your children in the
path C:\Images\Family Photos\Kids. To make these
photographs available to the network without sharing
anything else on drive C, you would only share the Kids
folder and leave C:\ (the root folder) and all other folders in
the file path not shared.
Now let’s say that you want to make the photographs in the
Kids folder unavailable to the other computers on your
network. To stop sharing the Kids folder you should stop
sharing drive C or any of the folders in the path, including
the Kids folder. Then, individually share any folder on drive
C that you want to be available to the network.
For specific instructions on how to share your files and
perform other related tasks, see the Windows Help file.
Use Windows Explorer to access your files
Windows Explorer displays the hierarchical structure of
files, folders, and drives on your computer.
Need graphic of Windows Explorer.
It also shows any network drives that have been mapped
to drive letters 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 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, in older versions of Windows),
point to Accessories, and then click Windows Explorer.
For more information about using Windows Explorer, see
the Windows Help file.
Use My Network Places or Network Neighborhood to
access and organize your network files
Depending on your version of Windows, you can use My
Network Places or Network Neighborhood to view all of the
shared files and folders on your network.
Note
Only the computer
users on your local network
will have access to the files
you share. Computers on the
Internet will not be able to
access your files..