Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 10 Minutes

By Dorothy Burke and Jane Calabria

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Lesson 1. Navigating Windows 2000 Professional
  • Lesson 2. Working with a Window
  • Lesson 3. Using Menus
  • Lesson 4. Using Windows 2000 Professional Help
  • Lesson 5. Using Dialog Boxes
  • Lesson 6. Working with Multiple Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 7. Copying, Moving, and Linking Between Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 8. Using My Computer
  • Lesson 9. Managing Files with My Computer
  • Lesson 10. Using WordPad
  • Lesson 11. Understanding File Properties and the Recycle Bin
  • Lesson 12. Printing
  • Lesson 13. Using My Network Places
    • What Is a Network?
    • About Clients and Servers
    • What Is My Network Places?
    • Logging On to a Network
    • Accessing My Network Places
    • Logging Off a Network
  • Lesson 14. Using the Control Panel
  • Lesson 15. Using Outlook Express Mail
  • Lesson 16. Sharing Workstations and Setting Passwords
  • Lesson 17. Using Internet Explorer 5
  • Lesson 18. Web Site and Document Searching
  • Lesson 19. Troubleshooting, Restarting, and Disaster Planning
  • Lesson 20. Customizing the Windows 2000 Environment

What Is My Network Places?

My Network Places is your control center for network resources. Its existence on your desktop indicates that you have a network connection (although it doesn't mean you are necessarily connected at all times).

Access to My Network Places requires that you are logged into the network, and the login process usually occurs when you start up your PC. Some of these resources may require an additional login at the time you access the resource by clicking its icon. To access My Network Places (see Figure 13.1), double-click its icon on your desktop.

Figure 13.1 My Network Places contains icons for viewing your network as well as an icon for adding a new Network Place, such as a printer or another computer.

Double-click the Entire Network icon to view resources on your network. As shown in Figure 13.1, icons contain descriptive names to help you identify computers or servers by their names. Icons do not help you to differentiate between a workstation and a client or server, so you need to know the names of the workstations and servers in your organization. If you double-click on Entire Network then click Entire Contents, you can see the contents of the network.

Windows 2000 allows you to share your computer, local printer, and so forth, and these devices may appear in the My Network Places when others access it. The Network Administrator determines what is to be shared in a corporate environment, however, and you should not attempt to share resources without consulting him first.

If you have two computers running Windows 2000 at home and one printer, you can create a peer-to-peer network and share the printer between the two computers. You can also share the drives on the computers, allowing access to each other's data. To share resources in this way, you need network cards and wiring in addition to Windows 2000.

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