eMachines H3120 Manuel D’Utilisation
CHAPTER 6: Networking Your Computer
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Refer to your router’s or access point’s troubleshooting information
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Contact your Internet service provider
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.
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:
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
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.
Sharing drives or folders
To share drives or folders:
1
In My Computer or Windows Explorer, right-click the drive or folder that
you want to share, then click Sharing and Security. The folder properties
dialog box opens.
you want to share, then click Sharing and Security. The folder 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.
everyone on your network. If you share a folder, only the contents of that
folder will be available to everyone on the network.
2
Click the Sharing tab.