Sharing a folder on a home network?

[AmazinT]

Hi Guys, I've got a home network with 4 PCs on it using a Linksys E3000 router. All of the PCs run Windows 7.

On one of the PCs, I'd like to set it up so that a specific folder on the hard drive will be shared over the network and accessible (for full read/write) by the other PCs on the network whenever the main PC is turned on.

How would I go about configuring something like this? I have no idea how the networking functionality works.

 

[Roderunner]

Hi 003, right click the folder you want to share, select properties>sharing, click 'Advanced Sharing', tick box 'Share this folder', click 'Permissions'. From here you can do as you want.

 

[boohbah]

at the top of an explorer window there are options tabs select share with then choose which option suits you

 

[djjamieg]

Homegroup is quite easy to setup depending on the versions you have running, but the above methods will work regardless, I have a seperate machine left on all the time for this, you can buy network portable harddrives that connect via ethernet to your router to also achieve this.
Regards