Enter in the desired password and then select Accept Changes. You will need to create usernames and passwords for users on any PC that you plan to share files on to be accessible to other PCs on your network.
Once you have successfully created user accounts, you then can select which files, folders and devices on your system that you will share out with other users. This will bring up a new window where you have the option to Stop Sharing or Change Sharing Permission. If you are using Password Protected Sharing you will need to go a step further and assign users who you want to allow access to the shared file.
Once you have added a user to the list for this share, you can also change their permission level to reader, co-owner, or contributor. In this case anyone with a user account and password on your computer, as well as everyone on your network, will be able to see all the files in your Public folder and subfolders.
Sharing A Printer Setting up a printer is also an intuitive and simple process. From the Network Sharing center under Printer Sharing, you simply turn on printer sharing from the computer the printer is connected to. If you have password protected sharing on, your access to the network printer will also require users to be logged in with their password to access. Eric Geier is a freelance tech writer.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Now Trending. Using Public folder, you can set up a shared folder without access control.
Sharing the Public folder. Select [Sharing and Security Select [Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can open, change, and create files], and then click [Apply].
Do not select [Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can open files]. Otherwise, you will not be able to store a document scanned with this machine in a shared folder. Creating a folder to store a file. You can store a file in the first level of the Public folder. This section describes the procedure for creating a new folder in which to store a file in the Public folder. To access a shared folder of this type, users have account information user names and passwords for the shared folder.
If they do not know their account information, they cannot access that shard folder. You need to create user accounts for users who access the shared folder in advance. This section describes the procedure for creating a new account on your computer. Even if you do not create a new account by following the procedures below, you can add a pre-registered account for users who are permitted to access the shared folder.
In such case, you need to create a password if one has not been set for the preregistered account. Once the password is created, the user is prompted to type the password when logging on to a computer.
Click the user name created in the [Change an Account], and then click [Create a password]. In the [Create Password] dialog box, type the password in two boxes circled in black, and then click [Create password]. Setting a Shared Folder and Access Permissions. Once you create the account on your computer, create a shared folder. Add the created account to the shared folder as a user who is permitted to access that folder.
Set access permissions so that the user can that folder as well. It is recommended to create the folder in a place where users can find it easily, such as the first level in C drive. Click [ ] on the left side of [Add Select the user. Click [Add Select the added user. Select the [Contributor] or [Co-owner] check box.
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