The folder’s Properties dialog box appears with the Sharing tab displayed, as shown in

Chapter 13 ✦ Accessing the Network

4. Click the Properties button. The Client for Microsoft Networks Properties dialog box

appears, as shown in Figure 13-2. Figure 13-2: Set logon preferences in the Client for Microsoft Networks Properties dialog box. If you’re a client on a Windows 2000 Server network, check the Log On to Windows NT Domain check box and enter the appropriate domain name. 5. In the Network logon options, select one of the following: • Quick logon. Windows will log on to the network quickly, without restoring net- work drive connections; however, you can restore these connections easily when you need them. See the section “Mapping Drives” later in the chapter for more information. • Logon and restore network connections. Windows’s logon is a bit slower, but it reconnects all mapped drives so that the connections are ready when you need them. It’s best to choose quick logon if the other computers in your network are not always going to be on. If you choose to restore network connections and a network computer isn’t turned on, your computer searches for a long time before asking you to cancel the connection.

6. Click OK to close the Client for Microsoft Networks Properties dialog box, and then

click OK again to close the Network dialog box. Close the Control Panel. If your Windows 98 computer is in a workgroup instead of a clientserver network, you choose the Identification tab in the Network dialog box, as shown in Figure 13-3. In this dialog box, you enter the computer’s name as others see it on the network, the name of the workgroup, and optionally, any comment you want others to see when it’s networked. Tip Note Part III ✦ Working with Networked Computers Figure 13-3: Identify your computer and the workgroup in the Network dialog box. Setting logon preferences in Windows XP If you’re using a Windows XP computer, you can change logon information in the User Accounts dialog box. Follow these steps:

1. Click Start ➪ Control Panel. The Control Panel appears, as shown in Figure 13-4.

Figure 13-4: Set the computer logon preferences in Windows XP.

2. Click User Accounts. The User Accounts dialog box appears see Figure 13-5.