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
  • Lesson 14. Using the Control Panel
  • Lesson 15. Using Outlook Express Mail
  • Lesson 16. Sharing Workstations and Setting Passwords
    • Assigning Passwords to Screen Savers
    • Changing Your Password
    • Sharing Resources on Your Computer
    • Sharing Folders and Disk Drives on Your Computer
    • Setting File Permissions
    • Creating and Sharing a Printer
    • Sharing an Already-Defined Printer
    • Setting Printer Permissions
  • 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

Sharing Folders and Disk Drives on Your Computer

To share a folder or disk drive on your computer, follow these steps:

1. In a Windows Explorer window (My Computer, My Network Places, and so on), select the folder or disk drive you want to share.
2. Right-click the folder/drive to display the pop-up menu; then click Sharing to display the Sharing panel on the <resource name> Properties sheet (where <resource name> is the name of the folder or other resource you are sharing). (See Figure 16.3.)
   

   Figure 16.3 The Sharing panel of a folder properties dialog box.

3. Select the Share this Folder option.
4. You can accept the default share name for the folder or type a new name in the Share name text box. The default share name is the folder name or, if you are sharing a whole disk drive, the drive letter.
5. Enter a description in the Comment text box, if you wish. The goal here is to make it clear to users what they will gain from connecting to the resource. The comment appears in the Comment column of the Details view of your computer when other users select it in Windows Explorer or My Network Places.
6. In the User Limit section, you may limit the number of users who can simultaneously connect to your shared resource. By default, up to 10 users can connect at the same time. You may reduce the limit, if you wish, to as few as one user at a time.
7. If you want to grant full control of the shared folder and its contents to all comers, click OK. You are done sharing the folder. If you want to grant less than full control to some or all users, click Permissions and set permissions as described in "Setting File Permissions," later in this lesson; then, when you are finished setting permissions, click OK to establish the share.

You can quickly tell if you have designated a folder as shared. Its folder icon in the Explorer or My Network Places appears to be held out by a hand, as shown in Figure 16.4.

Figure 16.4 A shared disk drive and a shared folder.

To change the properties of a shared folder or disk drive, right-click it; then click Sharing. You may change the share name, comment, and access privileges. You may also create a new share of an already shared resource by opening the Sharing screen, clicking the New Share button, and adding a new share name, comment, user limit, and set of permissions.

Also, you may remove a share. To stop sharing a folder or disk drive, follow these steps:

1. Select the folder you want to stop sharing.
2. Right-click the folder and then click Sharing.
3. If a resource is shared under only one name, or if it is shared under multiple share names and you want to terminate all sharing, select the Not Shared option and click OK. If a resource is shared under more than one share name, you may remove an individual share name by selecting it in the drop-down list of names in the Share Name field and clicking the Remove Share button; then clicking OK.

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