Creating a Windows file share

- In this section, I'd like to talk about creating a Windows file share. This file share will be accessible not only from Windows clients, but also from a Macintosh. Here in the C drive, I'll right click and say New Folder. I'll give it a name. That folder I just created, I'll right click on it and go to Properties. In the Properties, the second tab is Sharing. The very first option is a button for share. I'll need to choose the people I'm going to share with. It's already added my own account.

I can add as many or as few other accounts as I would like. For each account, I can choose the permission level, which is either Read or Read and Write. When I'm done with that, I hit Share at the bottom. Here, I get a messages saying the folder has been shared. I'll hit Done. On this dialog, I'll hit Close. I'm going to go ahead and open up that folder, place a file in it that we'll be using in the later demonstrations. All I did was create a little text document so that we can use that to test our sharing.