How To Share a Drive In Windows XP

 

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

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.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This box MUST be Checked

 

This should be set to C and thats it.

 

This box MUST be Checked

 

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.