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Chapter 4: Network Tasks 23
To access the Internet from each computer on a network
1. Make sure that you have a Web browser (such as Microsoft
Internet Explorer) installed on each computer that is connected
to your network.
2. On any of the networked computers, open the Web browser.
3. Search for the Web site you want, or enter the address in the
Address bar.
Note that the rate at which you are able to send and receive data
over the Internet is highly dependent on many factors. Adding
another user to your Internet connection typically reduces the
speed of data transfer, but you are unlikely to notice the difference.
Allowing Access to Files and Folders
The information in this section provides general guidance for a few
basic file-sharing tasks. For more detailed instructions and
information about sharing files and folders, see Windows Help. To
access Windows Help, click Start, and then click Help (or Help and
Support in Windows XP).
To make it easy to share files and folders, all of your networked
computers should be in the same workgroup. For more
information, look up “workgroup” in Windows Help.
Sharing files and folders is a two-step process. You will need to:
1. Make the files and folders available to the network.
2. Use Windows (Network Neighborhood, My Network Places, or
Windows Explorer) to access the shared files and folders.
To make your files and folders available to the network
While setting up your broadband network, you might have chosen
to share all of your files and folders with the network. If you decide
that you want to share only some of your files and folders with the
network, you can use Microsoft Windows to specify which files and
folders to share.
You can share an entire drive with the network, or you can share
specific folders. Let’s say that you store photographs of your
children in a folder named “Kids” on your computer, and you want
to make the photographs available to your network. To do so, you
would share only the Kids folder and not the other folders on your
computer.
Only the computer users on your network will have access to the files
you share. At times, you might want to prevent users, such as your
children, from accessing particular folders and the files they contain.
If you want to increase the security of your shared files, you can
assign permissions and passwords to your files and folders. For
more information, look up “permission” and “access control” in
Windows Help. (In Windows Me, look up “controlling access.”)
Note
If you have Microsoft Windows
2000 or Windows XP, you
mightneed to have
administrative privileges (or
be the network administrator)
to share folders with others.
For more information, type
“administrator” in the Search
box in Windows Help.