How to share files on your network

             The PC to PC sharing of files became necessary as demand on file sharing increases, this due to the usage of computer in our everyday lives, there are more ways to share your file across the network but with windows XP, its procedure are all the same way to share there files on LAN, WLAN e.t.c. here i will show you a step to step guide on how to share your files across a LAN network which in the WLAN method there is just a slight change
To begin sharing on windows XP you must first know the type of sharing that you are intending to use on your network, Of course there should be a master PC and slave, i used the word master  to represent the PC you are sharing from and the slave PC is the PC you are sharing for….
These are the major types of sharing
* Peer to peer
*Server to client

In a peer to peer sharing you just needed two PC to do this, materials needed to do a peer to peer sharing is a cross over networking cable and the two PC’s, how to know if a cable is a cross over cable ( Read articles on coding of networking cables) After you might have got that it takes to do your peer to peer sharing, then follow these procedures
*Boot up the two PC’s and Insert one end of the cable into the PC that contain more files, i mean the PC that you are sharing from the server or as used earlier master PC
*Go to the control panel of the PC you are sharing from(server) and select from the category list Network and internet connections, after Highlight the connection that you wish to share and right click to enable the sharing option
* But if you’re not sharing an internet connection, open your windows explorer or my computer to highlight the file, folder or the hardware you are sharing and right click to enable the sharing too
*Another means of sharing files or folder are also listed below

1. You can also share files and folders by moving or copying them to the Shared Documents folder. In Windows, all files contained in the Shared Documents folder are automatically shared on the local network.
2. The procedure and steps used for sharing files in Windows 2000 and earlier version of Windows can be accessed from the “File/Sharing” menu in Windows Explorer.