User's Manual

18 Microsoft Broadband Networking Wireless Adapter User’s Guide
To share a folder or drive on your computer in the Windows 2000
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.
5. Click Share this folder. By default, the folder is made available to all of the
other computers on your network, and everyone has read-write access. To
change the access level, click Permissions.
6. Click OK.
To share a folder or drive on your computer in the Windows Me or Windows 98
SE and Windows Me 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. Select the le or folder that you want to make available to other computers on
your network.
4. On the File menu, click Sharing.
5. Click Shared as. Change the level of access if you want, and then click OK.
Only the computer users on your network will have access to the les you share.
At times, you may want to prevent certain users, such as your children, from
accessing particular folders and the les they contain. If you want to increase the
security of your shared les, you can assign permissions and passwords to your
les and folders. For more information, look up “permission” and “access control”
in Windows Help. (In Windows Millennium Edition, look up “controlling access.”)
Note For a computer’s les and folders to be available to the network, the computer
must be turned on and logged on to the network. Also, if the computer is turned on
but in sleep mode, it will not be accessible from the network. For more information,
look up “power options” in Windows XP Help, or “power management” in Windows
Me, Windows 2000, and Windows 98 SE Help.
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