www.gateway.com57Sharing resourcesWith a network, you can share your Internet connection, drives, and printers.Sharing drives and printersWith a network, you can share drives (for example hard drives and DVD drives) and printersamong the computers connected to the network.After the drives and printers on each network computer are shared, you can access them asthough they were attached directly to your computer. Then you can:• View a network drive• Open and copy files stored on other network computers• Print documents on network printersSharing drives or foldersTo share drives or folders:1 Click (Start), then click Computer.2 Right-click the drive or folder that you want to share, then click Share. The Propertiesdialog box opens.If you share a drive, the entire contents of that drive will be available to everyone on yournetwork. If you share a folder, only the contents of that folder will be available to everyoneon the network.3 Click the Sharing tab.If Share is grayed out, click Advanced Sharing to set sharing for this drive/folder.4 Click OK, then click Close.ImportantTo share a printer among the network computers, each computer must have theshared printer’s drivers installed. Follow the instructions included with your printer to installthe printer drivers on each computer.
