Testing Your Network; Sharing Resources; Sharing Drives And Printers - Gateway DX442XP User Manual

Testing your network

Now that your home network is set up, log onto one of your computers and access a favorite
Internet Web site.
If you are unable to connect to the Internet:
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Sharing resources

With a network, you can share your Internet connection, drives, and printers.

Sharing 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.
shared printer's drivers installed. Follow the instructions included with your printer to install
the printer drivers on each computer.
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:
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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:
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Chapter 5: Networking Your Computer
Run the New Connection Wizard (for more information, see
on page 20).
Check all physical cable connections
Compare the status lights on the front of the router or access point with the patterns
described in the router or access point literature
Temporarily turn off any firewall software on your desktop computer
Turn off all of the devices, then power them back on
Refer to your router's or access point's troubleshooting information
Contact your Internet service provider
Important
To share a printer among the network computers, each computer must have the
View a network drive
Open and copy files stored on other network computers
Print documents on network printers
In My Computer or Windows Explorer, right-click the drive or folder that 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.
"Setting up an Internet account"