Chapter 7. Sharing Network Resources

IN THIS CHAPTER:

About Sharing Network Resources

Share a Printer

Share a Folder

About Accessing Network Resources

Access Shared Folders and Open Shared Files

Map a Network Drive

Connect to a Shared Printer

Search for Network Computers

Add a Network Place

After you have your WiFi router set up and the WiFi-enabled and "wired" computers on your network configured for workgroup networking, you are ready to share network resources such as folders and printers. After a resource is shared, it can be accessed by other computers in the workgroup. In this chapter, we take a look at how you share a particular resource such as a printer in a workgroup and we take a look at how users in the workgroup can access available resources.