Sharing Drives And Printers - Gateway 200ARC Network Manual

Using Your Ethernet Network
To access the Internet from your computer:
1
Make sure that the router or access point is turned on.
2
Open Internet Explorer.

Sharing drives and printers

With a network, you can share drives (for example hard drives, diskette drives,
and CD or DVD drives) and printers among the computers connected to the
network.
After the drives and printers on each network computer are shared, you can
access them as though 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 printers
Important
Before you can share your drives and printers, you need to turn on Windows
file and printer sharing on all the network computers.
To turn on Windows file and printer sharing:
1
In Windows XP, click
window opens. If your Control Panel is in Category View, click
and Internet Connections
-OR-
In Windows 2000, click
Panel window opens.
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To share a printer among the network computers, each
computer must have the shared printer's drivers installed.
Follow the instructions included with your printer to install
the printer drivers on each computer.
, then click
Start
.
,
Start Settings
www.gateway.com
. The Control Panel
Control Panel
, then click
Control Panel
Network
. The Control