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Using Wireless to Share Your Files and Folders
Of course, once your computers are networked together and
sharing Internet access, the next step is to make your internal
network a little more useful. One of the best things you can do
with your wireless network is use it to share your files and
folders.
File sharing implies a system in which users write to as well as
read files or in which users are allotted some amount of space
for personal files on a common computer, giving access to other
computers as they see fit. The latter kind of file sharing is
common in schools and universities. Look Out for Security.
Before I tell you how to share folders, a quick word of warning:
if you don't have encryption set up on your network, then
everything you share will be available for others to view. This
means that anyone could bring their computer close enough to
connect to your wireless connection (and in many cases, your
neighbours are close enough), and they could see everything
you've put in a shared folder.
How do you get around this? Well, unfortunately, there are only
two things you can do: only share things that you wouldn't mind
other people seeing, or turn on encryption for your network. If
you want to change shared files from other computers as well as
just uploading and downloading them, you definitely need
encryption. For more, see 'Dealing with Security Threats:
Wireless Encryption'.
Automatic Sharing
Here's some good news: if you're happy to put your shared files
in a special folder, you don't need to do any extra
configuration. Windows automatically shares your 'Shared
Documents' folder when you create a wireless network, to give
you a space to share pictures and music across your network. To
access the Shared Documents folders, just open My Network Places
using the Start Menu.
Sharing More
Of course, most people want to share more than one folder. I,
for example, want to be able to access Word documents I'm
working on from any computer on my network, without saving them
outside My Documents. Luckily, you can access any files across
the network, as long as they are in the same folder together.
To share an existing folder, simply right-click it and choose
'Sharing and Security'. Tick 'Share this folder on the network'
in the box that appears. If you want to be able to change the
files from other computers, you
should also tick 'Allow network
users to change my files' -- if you don't do that, then the
files will be read-only when you use another computer to access
them.
Remember that sharing files over the network can be slow,
depending on how fast your wireless equipment is. Because of the
way Windows works, you should try to avoid keeping lots of files
in the same shared folder, as it can slow down the network more
than you might expect.
You Can Even Share Drives
You can share whole drives, if you want to. You should never do
this for your whole hard drive, though, as it is very dangerous
-- anyone who could get access to your network would be able to
see everything on your computer, including all sorts of private
information that you probably wouldn't want them to have. Worse,
if you had it set to allow the network to change files, your
computer could get messed up big time.
Where drive sharing becomes useful, then, is to share removable
drives. You can right-click anything from a CD drive to a floppy
drive, and share it over your network. The procedure is the same
as turning on sharing for a folder, except that there is an
extra step where you need to click to confirm to Windows that
you understand the risks involved.
Once a removable drive is shared, you can do all sorts of
things. You can use software that needs the CD to run as long as
the CD is in one of your computers, or you can save to floppy
disk from computers that don't have floppy disk drives -- the
possibilities, as they say, are endless.
With a little lateral thinking, you can take this even further.
Devices like digital cameras and mp3 players almost always
appear in My Computer as drives while they're plugged in --
turning on sharing for these drives basically means that you're
sharing the devices across the whole network. It's really neat
to be able to plug your camera into one computer and then
download the photos on to all of them -- give it a go!
About the author:
Original Source: Articles-Galore.com
Information supplied and written by Lee Asher of CyberTech SoftShop
Suppliers of the DeadEasy
Ebook Maker and Publishing Wizard.
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