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To enable other network users to access files that reside on your hard drive, you must designate a folder on the drive as a shared folder. Note that you can also share an entire drive, if you so desire. If you share an entire drive, other network users can access all the files and folders on the drive. If you share a folder, network users can access only those files that reside in the folder you share. (If the folder you share contains other folders, network users can access files in those folders, too.)

Don’t share an entire hard drive unless you want to grant everyone on the network the freedom to sneak a peek at every file on your hard drive. Instead, you should share just the folder or folders containing the specific documents that you want others to be able to access. For example, if you store all your Word documents in the My Documents folder, you can share your My Documents folder so that other network users can access your Word documents.

To share a folder on a desktop version of Windows, follow these steps:

1 Open File Explorer.Windows 10: Open the desktop and click the File Explorer icon on the taskbar; then click Computer in the Location list on the left side of the screen.Windows 7: Choose Start ⇒ Computer.

2 Navigate to the folder you want to share.

3 Right-click the folder you want to share and choose Properties.The Properties dialog box appears.

4 Click the Sharing tab and then click the Share button.The File Sharing dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 4-2.FIGURE 4-2: The File Sharing dialog box.

5 Click the arrow in the drop-down list, choose Everyone, and then click Add.This action designates that anyone on your network can access the shared folder.If you prefer, you can limit access to just certain users. To do so, select each person you want to grant access to and then click Add.

6 Select the level of access you want to grant each user.You can use the drop-down list in the Permission Level column to choose from three levels of access:Reader: A reader can open files but can’t modify or create new files or folders.Contributor: A contributor can add files to the share but can change or delete only her own files.Owner: An owner has full access to the shared folder. He or she can create, change, or delete any file in the folder.

7 Click Share.A confirmation dialog box appears to confirm that the folder has been shared.