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17-12 Chapter 17 Monitoring and Managing Shared Folders by Using Computer Management
4. In the Administrative Tools folder, double-click Computer Management.
5. In the Computer Management window, click Computer Management (Local).
6. Click Action, and then click Connect To Another Computer.
Windows XP displays the Select Computer dialog box.
7. Type the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) of the computer to which you want
to connect or click Browse to locate the computer on the network. Click OK when
you have specified the computer.
8. Use the Create A Shared Folder Wizard (described in the previous section) to create
a new folder and share it.
Note If you want to create and manage shared folders on remote computers and you are
not in a domain, you must create the same user account with the same password on each
computer. In workgroups, you do not have a central database that contains all user accounts.
Instead, each computer in the workgroup has its own local security database. For more information
on local security databases, see Chapter 7, “Setting Up and Managing User
Accounts.”
How to Stop Sharing a Folder by Using Shared Folders
You can also use the Shared Folders node in Computer Management to stop sharing a
folder. To stop sharing a folder, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2. In the Control Panel window, click Performance And Maintenance.
3. In the Performance And Maintenance window, click Administrative Tools.
4. In the Administrative Tools folder, double-click Computer Management.
5. Expand the System Tools node, and then expand the Shared Folders node.
6. Under Shared Folders, click Shares.
7. In the right-hand pane, right-click the folder you want to stop sharing and then
click Stop Sharing.
Windows displays a Shared Folders dialog box, asking whether you are sure you
want to stop sharing the folder.
8. Click Yes.