Give Permission to access your rerources (Sharing)(Win9x)

This page is for Windows95/98/ME
(there is a slightly different procedure for Windows 2000 / XP Prof and for XP Home

You have installed your network card and checked the network configuration.

The question is now: do you only want to connect from your system to another computer on
the network or do you want to allow other computers also to access resources on your system ?
(a network resource is either a complete disk, a folder with all files and subdirectories or a printer)

For other computers to access your system, you should have already installed
"File-and-Print Sharing" as part of the check/adjusting of the network configuration.

Once "File-and-Print Sharing" is installed, you need now to decide, to which part
of your computer other system should have access: which part of your system to SHARE.

You can give access to a complete disk on your computer or to just a folder.
You can allow other system to print on your printer.

	Sharing a compete Disk: In "My Computer", right-click on the disk to be shared and select from the context / Popup menu: "Sharing"
	The system displays the "Properties" of the disk, with the Tab:"Sharing" pre-selected. By defauly, the disk is Not shared.
	Select the disk to be "Shared As..", define the Share-name, which will be the name of this disk on the network (no blanks,as short as possible). You can decide the level of access: that other system can Only-Read data from your disk, or have Full-permission (to read/write/delete files) . If you trust everybody on your network, no need for passwords, but if there are some systems not allowed to access your data, define a password !
	Once a disk is shared, the Symbol in "My Computer" changes: the hand holding the disk

	Sharing a Folder : If you do not want to give access to your complete disk, you can allow access (=share) just a folder: other systems will then see only the files and sub-folders in this folder. Select the folder to be shared, right-click and select from the Context / popup menu: "Sharing"
	Like Sharing a complete Disk, select "Shared As...", define the "Share Name" , the access type (and a password, if required)
	Once a folder is shared, the Folder - Symbol changes: the hand holding the Folder

	Sharing a Printer: In "Printers",(via "MyComputer" or via the Control-panel),right-click on the printer to be shared and select from the context / pop-up menu: "Sharing"
	The system displays the "Properties" of the printer with the Tab:"Sharing" pre-selected. By defauly, a printer is Not shared. Select "Shared As....", define a Share-Name, under which the printer will be listed in the Network Neighborhood.
	Once a prnter is shared, the Symbol in "Printers" changes: the hand holding the printer.

Next Step:

Network Neighborhood / My Network Places