Sharing Drives And Printers - Gateway M520 User Manual

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Repeat this procedure for each computer on your network. Go to
"Accessing the Internet" on page
Accessing the Internet
To access the Internet from your computer:
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Make sure that the access point router is turned on.
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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:
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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
Important
Turning on Windows file and printer sharing
Before you can share your drives and printers, you need to turn on
Windows file and printer sharing on all the network computers.
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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.
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