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Sharing Your Files and Printers in Windows 98
Overview
By sharing your files and printers, other PCs on your network will be able to
access the resources on your PC.
Before sharing your files and printers, you should prepare your computer to
be used with any file servers that may be on the network. If you are not using
Windows 98 with an NT or NetWare file server, or if you are not sure if you
have a file server, continue below.
If you are using an NT or NetWare file server, go to page 26 for client setup.
Enabling File Sharing
1. Double-click your My Computer icon. A window of available disk drives
will appear.
2. Using your right mouse button, click once on the drive or folder that you
want to make available to other users.
3. Click on Sharing, followed by the Sharing tab. Click on Share As.
4. In the Share Name box, enter a name for the drive or folder you are shar-
ing. This can be any drive on your PC—floppy drive, hard drive, CD drive,
zip drive, etc.
5. Decide on the type of access that you want to give other users.
• Read-Only access allows other users to view the
files on the selected drive or folder.
• Full access allows other users to create, change, or
delete files on the selected drive or folder.
• Depends on Password allows other users to have
Read-Only and/or Full access to the selected drive
or folder, depending on the password that you
decide to give them.
6. If you want to assign access passwords, type the passwords into the
Password boxes.
NNoottee::
If you are only
using your PC to
access the Internet, it
is highly recommend-
ed that you create
passwords for your
shares.
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