Click the down arrow to the right of Network Discovery. Click the Option button next to Turn on
network discovery.
Click Apply.
Click the down arrow to the right of Public folder sharing. Click the Option button next to Turn
on sharing so anyone with network access can open files.
Click Apply.
Make sure file sharing is turned on. If it isn’t, turn it on.
Close the Network and Sharing and the Network windows.
STEP 3: Share a Folder Accessed From Windows 7
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When you click on the Reports folder, two buttons appear in the top panel. Click the Share icon
on the top bar. (You could also have right-clicked the Reports folder and clicked Share.)
Using the down arrow next to the Add button, select Find. Find the Accounting group and click
OK.
Notice that the Accounting group just has the Reader permission. Click the down arrow next to
Reader and select Contributor. This will allow changes.
Click the Share button.
A window appears showing it has been shared as \\SRV-1\Reports. The standard format is \\ +
the server name + the share name. (A bit of trivia: This is exactly the same syntax as when
Microsoft first started networking in the mid-1980s.)
Click Done. Notice that the icon for the Reports folder has changed a bit. If you look really close,
you will see the group symbol of two heads. Some people prefer the symbol in the previous
versions, which was a hand underneath the folder.
Double-click the Reports folder to open it. In the right pane, right-click and select New then
Text Document. Name the document November.
Minimize the server window.
STEP 4: Allow Users to Log On From Windows 7