Friday, 9 March 2012

Share a Folder in Windows Systems

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-How to Share a Folder in Windows Systems If you have a home network or inside a corporate network, you can share your files with other computers in your house or share office documents with your co-workers.
-Having a shared folder is convenient for file exchange.
-You don’t need to bring a blank CD or a flash drive to another computer to copy the files you need and bring back to your computer.
-In order for you to set up a shared folder, you need to have a home workgoup network setup or under the same domain inside a corporate.
-You can follow these steps to setup a sharing folder.
-Step 1 Create a new folder, you can place inside the C drive, or you can put in on your desktop or inside your “My Documents” folder.
-Step 2 Now select the folder and right click on it, choose “Properties”.
-The folder properties window opens up.
-Step 3 On the top of the window, click on “Sharing” tab.
-And select the radio button “Share this folder”. Then enter a name for the share name.
-Step 4 On the same window, click on “Permission” and the permission window will come up.
-The default group or user names is Everyone, of course you can add or remove another group or user by clicking the “Add” and “Remove” buttons. Step 5 In the permissions box, give proper permissions to each group or user: “Read” means to grant the user to read only, while “Change” grant to edit and “Full Control” means you grant access to read, edit and delete files within the shared folder.
-Step 6 Now to test your work: from Start, click on Run, enter the network path to the folder, normally looks like this: pcnamesharedfoldername

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