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password.

• The folder or printer isn’t shared? Share it!

• The folder or printer doesn’t exist? Make sure the serving system still

hosts the folder you want. Install the network printer if you haven’t yet.

Failing to Connect to a Previously Used Resource

If you suddenly can’t connect to a resource that you’ve used many times

before, go with the easy answers first:

• Check that you can see the resource using Network.

• Check that the serving system is on.

• Check that the computer is physically connected to the serving system.

The net Command

Windows enables you to view a network quickly from the command line

through the net command. This works great when you plug into a network for

the first time and, naturally, don’t know the names of the other computers on

that network. To see the many options that net offers, type net at a command

prompt and press ENTER. The view and use options offer excellent network

tools.

You can think of net view as the command-line version of Network. When

run, net view returns a list of Windows computers on the network:

Once you know the names of the computers, you type net view followed

by the computer name. The net view command will show any shares on that

machine and whether they are mapped drives:

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