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How To Share a Drive In Windows XP

 
First Double Click on the My Computer Icon on the desktop.

Hard Drive List

Drive C: is the drive that we want to set up sharing on so right click on the C: drive and select Sharing and Security from the puldown menu.
 
 
 
 

Sharing Tab

Make sure that you are on the sharing tab.
 
If you are on the Sharing Tab and you have never shared this drive in the past, you will see the link below it.  Please click on that link to open up the Sharing Settings.
 
 
 

Network Sharing and Security Box

On This screen, we are only concerned with this section of the screen since we are about to share the entire C: Drive.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Share this folder on the network check

This box MUST be Checked
 

Shared Name

This should be set to C and thats it.
 

Allow network users to change my files check

This box MUST be Checked
 

Apply button

When finished with the above settings, press apply.  your computer will do some file sharing and then you are done setting up the sharing on this computer.
 
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