Sharing Resources; Sharing Drives And Printers - Gateway 6-Bay mBTX PRO User Manual

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.
have the 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
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Important
To share a printer among the network computers, each computer must
View a network drive
Open and copy files stored on other network computers
Print documents on network printers
Click (Start), then click Computer.
Right-click the drive or folder that you want to share, then click Share. The 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.
Click the Sharing tab.
If Share is grayed out, click Advanced Sharing to set sharing for this drive/folder.
Click OK, then click Close.
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