To share files and printers, you should read our tutorial How to Share Folders and Printers on Your Network to see how this can be done. If you are not using a broadband router on the computer that has an Internet connection, you should be very careful, because sharing its folders can allow anyone on the Internet to have access to your files. Read more about this in our tutorial Protecting Your Computer Against Invasions. In this tutorial, you will find some tips for preventing a hacker to gain access to your files. If the remote computer cannot access the Internet, check if the USB cable is configured to get an IP address automatically from the network. Go to the Start menu, Settings, Network Connections, right click the cable connection (“Local Area Connection 2,” in our case), select Properties, and then, in the window that will appear, double-click on “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).” The two options available on the screen must be set on “automatically,” as shown in Figure 11. Both computers should be configured this way.