User's Manual

Chapter 3: Network Activities 17
Important Do not assign a computer (such as a work laptop) to your workgroup if
the computer is already a member of a domain, and you intend to reconnect to the
domain later.
Step 1: Make your les and folders available to the network
You may have set up le sharing on your computers when you set up your wireless
network adapter. If you did not set up le sharing when you set up your hardware,
you can enable it by using the Windows operating system. You can also use
Windows to change or further rene the settings you selected during Setup. For
more detailed instructions and information about sharing les and folders, see
Windows Help.
Note If you have the Windows XP or Windows 2000 operating system, you need
to have sufcient privileges (or be the network administrator) to share folders with
others. For more information, look up “administrator” in Windows Help.
File and folder sharing is congured from the computer that contains the les
and folders you wish to share. You can share an entire drive with the network,
or you can share specic folders. For example, if you store photographs of your
children in a folder named “Kids” on your computer, and you want to make the
photographs available to your network, you can choose to share only the Kids
folder.
Important Although you can share les, printers, and other devices on your network,
you cannot share software programs, such as Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel.
To share a folder or drive on your computer in the Windows XP
operating system
1. Enable le sharing on your computer if you have not already done so. You need
to do this only once. For information about how to enable le sharing, see
Windows Help.
2. Open My Computer.
3. Browse to the drive or folder that you want to make available to other
computers on your network, and then select it.
4. On the File menu, click Sharing and Security.
5. Click Share this folder on the network. By default, the folder is made available
to all of the other computers on your network, and everyone has read-only
access. To give everyone read-write access, check the Allow Network Users to
Change My Files check box.
6. Click OK.
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