How to Share Data

Series Summary

Computers are complex machines built upon very simple principles. They perform arithmetical operations millions of times over to transform digital information moving at lightning speed into usable human data. A personal computer's job is to help a user create, manipulate, deliver, receive or delete media content. This is a simple, sterile definition that sounds uninteresting on the surface. Nevertheless, these fundamental functions mimic human ability in some surprising ways. Therefore, the computer is increasingly becoming an engine of the imagination, a platform for the digital life. In this free video series, a software developer provides advice for using laptop computers and the Internet. Discover how to share data on computers, how to build a Web page and how to connect a laptop to the Internet. Learn about spamming, video cards and Internet domains as well. Find out about using the Internet on a laptop computer with these IT tips.

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you how to share data on your computer. Let's go to our computer screen and I'm going to create a folder on my desktop that I'm going to share with other people in my organization. To do that, let's just right click and we're going to create a new folder. I'm going to call it My Data. Let's go in here and add a couple of files, just going to create a new little bit map and a new Microsoft Office PowerPoint. So there's a couple of files in here that I'm going share to other people. To do so, just right click on the folder and then click on share. Now what this is going to do is ask if you want to stop sharing the folder which we can't do since we're not sharing it yet, or if we want to change the sharing permissions. We want to change those sharing permissions and here we have to choose people to share with. Now if I was in the domain of multiple computers, I could pick users from my domain and type them in to here. Since I'm not, it's only showing users on my local PC. So I'm going to select another user here and I'm going to make him the co-owner which basically means he has full access to this folder. Now, after you've selected your users, all you have to do is click this share button down here at the very bottom. And after you click that it says it's sharing your items and then it'll pop up with a success message telling you that your folder has been shared. It also tells you here what your users need to type in order to access your shared data. Basically if they click on their start button, if they typed in here, Andrew's PC, they would see the date that I'm sharing if they typed in the rest of this string right here. Now another way to share data is to share it among users just on your local computer. And the way we do that is we go to the computer, My Computer section, click this little first drop down box here, next to the icon on the computer and let's go to public. Now this lists all of the public documents that are on this local machine. Now public documents are shared between the users on this particular computer. So if I create a new file here, I'll just say a new folder, inside of the public desktop, that means that all the users are able to access this public folder and then get on the public desktop and access that folder. My name's Dave Andrews and I've just explained to you how to share data"