
If you have a Windows XP computer that is a member of a Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 domain, everything works pretty much as it used to. The most common way to create shared files is via Windows Explorer. This is a more secure default configuration users have to knowingly and actively enable file sharing for it to work.Īs in previous versions of Windows, Windows XP lets you create shares through three primary interfaces: Not so with Windows XP, in which file sharing is more problematic because it’s disabled by default.


Creating file shares in Windows 2000 was easy: Right-click on the folder, click Properties, click the Sharing tab, and away you go.
