Wireless Networking with Microsoft Windows Vista

10Sharing Files and Folders

In this chapter

• How File Sharing Works

• Configuring File Sharing in Windows Vista

• Sharing Folders and Drives in Windows XP

• Accessing Shared Folders

• Backing Up Your Data Across a Network

When you have multiple computers connected across a network, you can start sharing your resources between your computers. You can share many different types of resources, but the most common are data files—your documents, photos, digital music, and other files that you store on your PCs.

To share files across the network, you have to enable file sharing on each of your PCs. That’s what we’ll talk about in this chapter.

How File Sharing Works

Just because you have multiple PCs connected to your ...