Say across the hall in your home, your daughter has a PC on your network
and her username is Willow. If you create an account on your own PC
named Willow and assign it the same password your daughter uses, she??™ll be
able to access the files in this folder without a login at all. (See the next section
if you have two PCs with the same username, yet different passwords.)
So, once you??™ve created the new account, return to the Permissions window
(Figure 8-17), click Add, type the name of the new account (e.g., Willow),
and click OK.
Figure 8-17. To protect your data, you should set the permissions for every folder you
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Users and
Security
When you??™re done adding users, click OK and then OK again to close the
Advanced Sharing and Properties windows, respectively. Voil? ; a tiny twoperson
insignia appears on the folder??™s icon, which means the folder is
shared and ready to be used.
Access a Shared Folder Remotely
As soon as a folder or drive has been shared, it can be accessed from another
PC on your local network. Just open Windows Explorer and navigate to the
Network folder in the tree.
The Network folder will show all the PCs (discoverable PCs, that is) on your
local network. If it doesn??™t, press F5 to refresh the window; if you see the
green progress bar moving slowly from left to right at the top of the window,
be patient.
Or not. If the PC you want isn??™t in the list, you don??™t have to sit around and
wait for it to magically appear.
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