Testing Your Network; Sharing Resources; Sharing Drives And Printers - Gateway MX6211b User Manual

CHAPTER 9: Wireless Networking

Testing your network

Sharing resources

Sharing drives and printers

Important
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.
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Now that your home network is set up, log onto your notebook and access a
favorite Internet Web site. If you are unable to connect to the Internet:
Run the New Connection Wizard
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Make sure that your access point is plugged in and compare the status
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lights on the front of the access point with the patterns described in the
access point documentation
Temporarily turn off any firewall software on your notebook
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Turn off all of the devices, then turn them back on
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Contact your Internet service provider
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With a network, you can share your Internet connection, drives, and printers.
With a network, you can share drives (for example hard drives and 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
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Open and copy files stored on other network computers
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Print documents on network printers
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Sharing drives or folders
If you want to share a drive or folder, use the following instructions.
To share drives or folders:
In My Computer or Windows Explorer, right-click the drive or folder that
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you want to share, then click Sharing and Security. The folder properties
dialog box opens.
If you share a drive, the entire contents of that drive will be available to
everyone on your network. If you share a folder, only the contents of that
folder will be available to everyone on the network.
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