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To share a folder with others on your network, simply right-click its icon
and select Share (or select Properties and choose the Sharing tab), and then
click Advanced Sharing (Figure 8-16).
Figure 8-15. The Network and Sharing Center window must be set to ???Private network???
before you can share any folders or printers
What??™s My PC??™s Name?
Your PC??™s name is the name others see when they access your shared folders
over the network, so make it a good one.
In Control Panel, open System, click the Advanced system settings link on
the left, and then choose the Computer Name tab. Ignore the Computer
description field and instead look at the Full computer name entry immediately
beneath it: this is your PC??™s name.
Each computer on your local network must have a different name, but they
all must have the same Workgroup name. If you need to rename your PC or
modify the Workgroup name, click the Change button (don??™t use the Network
ID button).
When you??™re done, you may have to restart Windows for any changes to take
effect.
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Turn on the Share this folder option to start sharing the selected folder and
all of its contents. The Share name is the name under which the folder will
be accessed from other computers; although the name can be anything, it
usually makes sense to leave the default, which is the same as the name of
the folder.
A drive can be shared as easily as any folder, but it??™s not necessarily
a good idea.
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