With all of this in place, file
sharing is a matter of deciding what to share, and with whom.
Step 1: Establish a Folder to Share
While it is possible, you should never share an entire disk drive, especially not the
system drive, C:. The system drive contains the operating system and program files so
often implicated in and infected by hacks, viruses, and malware.
Windows XP offers one method of sharing files and folders??”Simple File Sharing.
XP Home Edition offers only method of sharing, Simple File Sharing, as described
here. Only XP Professional offers the ability to disable Simple File Sharing to allow
more granular control over which users can see that you are sharing files, and whether
or not they can read, write, modify, or delete files within the shared folder. The options
and access to them are similar for Windows Vista.
Let??™s start with a computer named LT2. To provide for a single, private area to
share files on LT2, create a new folder and share only that one folder. Open Windows
Explorer (My Computer), select the C: drive, and then create a new folder??”???Share???
is a good enough name to identify the purpose of the folder, so use that for this
project.
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18 Project 3
Open My Computer, then open the C: drive (or other drive you wish to share
files from), and create a new folder to contain only those files you wish to share with
others. There is virtually no limit to how many of these folders you can create, set up
sharing for, and select the content and the users who have access to it.
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