Windows Vista®: Home Networking

Chapter 6. The Network and Sharing Center

• Review network discovery and network locations

• Share files and folders

• Configure Public folder sharing

• Share a printer

• Share media

• View and access all computers and devices

• View and access shared files and folders

THE LAST FEW tasks in setting up a network are configuring the options in the Network and Sharing Center and then accessing the shared data and devices. In this chapter, you’ll first learn how to share files, folders, media, and printers on your PC with the Windows Vista operating system. After that, you’ll learn how to view and access the networked computers and the shared data and devices.

Sharing goes both ways, though. In this chapter, you’ll configure sharing on the Windows Vista–based PCs, but ...