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Wireless 11b Mini PCI User’s Guide
15. Passwords: allow you to apply a level of security to
your shared disk drives and folders. Any other com-
puter (user) will be asked to enter the password you
designate here before accessing the disk drive or
folder. Two passwords are used to give two levels of
security (or access) to others on the network using
the Depends on Password setting. Leaving the Pass-
word boxes empty will give everyone on the network
access to the disk drive or folder.
16. Click OK to continue. You will be prompted to enter
the password(s) you provided for verification. Type
the password(s) just as you entered them again.
17. Now you may access this disk drive or folder from
another computer on your network. You may do so
by double-clicking the My Network Places icon on
your desktop or inside Windows Explorer.
18. Navigate to the computer with the shared disk drive or
folder (recognized by the Computer Name you
provided) and double-click. Now you should see the
disk drive or folder, and double-click. If you specified
a password when sharing this disk drive or folder,
you will be asked for the password.
19. You can access a disk drive or folder shared over the
network from most Windows
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98/ME/2000/XP
applications. You can map these disk drives and folers
to a drive letter on another computer to make this
process easier. For example, on a computer where
you are accessing a shared folder from another
computer, inside Windows Explorer right-click and
select Map Network Drive. Now you are able to
assign an available drive letter. Checking Recon-
nect at logon allows Windows to map this network
drive each time when you start your computer.