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How to share a networked drive

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Monday April 13, 2009

When you have a home network it's handy to be able to share files and folders between computers. In order to do that, however, you have to opt-in to share your drive on the network. Here's how to do it.

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- Double-click on My Computer.

- Right-click on the folder or drive that you want to share.

- Select Sharing and Security from the context menu.

- When you click you'll see two check boxes.

- Check the first one to share the drive or folder.

- The next checkbox is to let network users alter your files. This means other users on your network will have access to, for example, read, edit or even delete a document.

- If you want to allow that then check the box.

- If you do not want to let network users change your files then leave the box unchecked. Users can still view files and documents but can't make changes to them.

- Click OK and Windows will set some folder permissions on the network.

- Your drive will now have a hand underneath it to signify that the drive is being shared.

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