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Book VII
Chapter 1
Setting Up a Peer-
to-Peer Network
Sharing Resources on the Network
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2. Navigate to the resource that you want to share, right-click it, and
choose Sharing from the shortcut menu to open a Properties dialog
box at the Sharing tab (see Figure 1-5).
3. Select the Share This Folder radio button.
In the Share Name box, accept the name that Windows suggests or enter
another name.
This name must be unique on this computer, and it is the name that
others on the network will see when they browse this computer.
4. Enter a comment by briefly describing the share in the Comment box.
Users will also use this information when browsing the network.
5. In the User Limit area, select either the Maximum Allowed or Allow
This Number of Users radio button to specify the maximum number of
simultaneous users.
Windows allows a maximum of ten users. When the eleventh user tries
to log on, she will see this message: “No more connections can be made
to this remote computer at this time because there are already as many
connections as the computer allows.”
6. To specify the kind of access that users have to this resource, click
the Permissions button to open the Permissions dialog box for this
resource. To set a permission, select its check box. After you’re fin-
ished, click OK.
Figure 1-5:
The Local
Disk
Properties
dialog box
at the
Sharing tab.
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