Mapping your network drive

Moving files between computers on a floppy disk (the so-called “sneakernet”) is a thing of the past. If you have more than one computer in your home, you can share files across your home network. Shared folders from other computers appear in Windows Explorer just as if they were on the computer you’re using.

Sharing files is a two-step process:

1- Share a folder on the computer that stores your files. This step is described in Sharing files.

2- Create a connection to the shared folder on the computer that you want to use to open the files. You can connect to the shared folder in two ways:

3- You can directly open the shared folder. This is the quickest way to get to your shared files.

4- Click Start, and then click My Documents

5- Click the Tools menu, and then click Map Network Drive

6- In the Map Network Drive dialog box, click Browse

7- In the Browse For Folder dialog box, click the folder you want to connect to, and then click OK.

8- In the Map Network Drive dialog box, make a note of the drive letter shown, and then click Finish

9- If prompted, type your user name and password, and then click OK

10- Microsoft Windows XP will open a folder to your shared files. In the future, you can open the shared folder from My Computer by clicking the appropriate drive letter.

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