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Part IV: Using a Wireless Network
4. Click the Add or Remove User Accounts option.
Your accounts management screen appears, where you can add a new
user and set the account type.
5. Click the Create a New Account link to bring up the New Account
window. When you create a new user account, you have two options
for the account type:
• Standard User: This account can use most software and can change
system settings that do not affect other users or the security of the
computer.
• Administrator: This account has complete access to the computer
and can make any changes. You don’t normally want to give
Administrator access to an account you’re setting up for sharing.
Any accounts with Administrator access can manage the computer
system remotely and change anything they want to on your
computer.
6. Follow the onscreen instructions to create the user.
After you create the new account, you are brought back to the New
Account window.
7. To set up a password for the new account, right-click the account icon
and select Create Password. Enter the desired password and then
select Accept Changes.
You need to do this for each new account you create.
You’re now ready to share your folders, printers, and any other devices you
have attached to your Vista machine.
Thankfully, sharing a folder or device in Vista is the same as in Windows XP.
From Explorer, right-click the file, folder, or device and choose Properties. On
the Sharing tab, choose Sharing and then choose Share. This displays a new
window where you have the option to Stop Sharing or Change Sharing
Permission. If you are using password-protected sharing — which you should
be using — you need to select the users for whom you want to allow access.
When you select Sharing Permission, you have the option to add a user. From
the Add User drop-down list, you can choose a single user name or you can
select Everyone in this list if you want all user accounts to have access to the
folder or file. After you have added a user to the list for this share, you can
also change his or her permission level to reader, co-owner, or contributor.
If you don’t want to deal with setting up share properties on multiple folders,
you can copy or move files to your Public folder and share from that location.
This allows you to turn on sharing in the directory of folders named Public,
and you simply put all files you want shared into those directories. In this
case, anyone with a user account and password on your computer will be
able to access those files. Also, anyone on your network will be able to see
and read those files but not change them.