How to Put Your Whole Hard Drive on a Shared Network
If you have a small home or office network, you can place an entire hard drive on the network to easily pass files between each machine. Before you can access the hard drive from a remote machine, you need to share it. The hard drive can be shared in Windows Vista through the sharing properties dialog window. Once the drive is shared, you can connect to it from any other machine on the network. You can also share the drive using security permissions, but this is not normally implemented on a small network where the entire drive is shared.
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Instructions
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Double-click the "My Computer" icon on the desktop. This opens a window with a list of local and networked drives on your computer.
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Right-click the local drive you want to share on the network. Select "Share..." from the list of menu options. Click the "Advanced Sharing" button.
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Check the box labeled "Share this folder." Once you check the box, the "Share Name" box is enabled. Type a friendly name for the share. This share name will be seen when you browse the remote computer. Press the "OK" button to save the settings.
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Click the "Security" tab. This tab is where you set permissions for the share. Click the "Edit" button. This opens a list of users with permission to access the drive.
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Click the "Add" button to open a dialog box with a list of users. Select a user to add and press the "OK" button. Highlight any users you don't want to give access to the drive and click the "Remove" button. Click the "OK" button in the security properties dialog box. The drive is now shared across the network.
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