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For small office or home office networks, you want to make sure that the network location type is set to private.
To view the current network location type, do the following, click Start, right-click Network, and then click Properties.
The Network and Sharing Center window displays the network location type in parentheses after the network name.
If your network type is Public, do the following:
1. To the right of the network name and location type, click Customize.
2. In the Set Network Location dialog box, click Private, and then click Next.
3. In the Successfully set network settings dialog box, click Close.
Enabling File and Printer Sharing Options
By changing your network location type to private, network discovery is automatically enabled in the Sharing and Discovery section of the Network and Sharing Center window. The following additional file and printer sharing options must be manually enabled:
• File sharing
• Public folder sharing
• Printer sharing
• Password protected sharing
When all of these sharing and discovery options are enabled, your computer can:
• Locate other computers and devices on your home network and have other computers locate your computer
• Share its folders
• Share its Public folder
• Share its printers
• Require user names and passwords for other computers that connect to the shared folders and printers of this computer
To enable file sharing, do the following:
1. In the Sharing and Discovery section of the Network and Sharing Center window, click the down arrow next to File sharing.
2. Within the File sharing settings, click Turn on file sharing, and then click Apply.
To enable public folder sharing, do the following:
1. In the Sharing and Discovery section of the Network and Sharing Center window, click the down arrow next to Public folder sharing.
2. Within the Public folder sharing settings, click one of the following:
o If you want to share the public folder so that other computers on the network can access the Public share to open files, but not create or change files, click Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can open files. This is the default setting.
o If you want to share the public folder so that other computers on the network can access the Public share to open files and also create or change files, click Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can open, change, and create files.
3. Click Apply.
