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32 Microsoft Broadband Networking Wireless Base Station User's Guide
About Sharing Other Peripheral Devices
In addition to most printers, you can share storage devices—such
as hard drives, CD-ROM drives, and Zip drives—on your network.
Storage devices that are not assigned a drive letter (such as tape
drives) cannot be shared. Tape backups of your computer must be
done from the computer that is attached to the tape drive.
Scanners, Web cameras, and CD-ROM burners cannot be shared
with other computers on your network.
About Reading E-Mail Messages on a Network
You can access your e-mail messages from each networked
computer the same way that you would access your e-mail
messages without a network (assuming that you have an Internet
connection). Open your e-mail program, or, if you have a Web-
based e-mail account, sign in to your account through your Web
browser.
Keep in mind the following: If you download e-mail messages from
your e-mail account to one computer, those messages will not be
accessible from the other computers on your network. Likewise, if
you share an account with another person, and he or she
downloads mail from the shared account to one computer on the
network, you will not see that mail when you access the account
from another computer.
To illustrate this point, let's say you share a postal mailbox at your
home with your spouse. If you come home first and take the letters
out of the mailbox, they will no longer be inside the mailbox when
your spouse comes home later and checks for mail.
If you want your e-mail messages to remain available to all users of
your network at any time, you should not download the messages
to one computer. (However, you should delete old messages from
your e-mail account on a regular basis, so that you don't exceed
the storage space given to you by your e-mail provider.)
Playing Games on a Network and the Internet
Many of the most popular games now have multiplayer capability,
allowing two or more players to compete by using a local network.
With network-enabled games, you can use your networked
computers to play games with friends and family members.
Most games come with documentation that explains all you need
to know to configure your network for multiplayer gaming. However,
the following check list might help you prepare for playing games
over the network:
• If you have purchased a multiplayer game, be sure to install it
on each computer on the network that will be used for playing
games.
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