Sharing Files and Drives

If your computers are connected to a network, each computer can make its
resources available to other computers in your office by sharing them over the
network. Instead of working in isolation as you do on a single computer not
linked to a network, you can work collectively, within a system that shares
resources among a group of computer users.
Each computer on your network can share folders, entire disk drives, or a
CD-ROM drive. Then other computers on your network can access
documents and other files stored in the folders and on the drives. Instead of
copying a document to a diskette and giving it to another person to view,
anyone can open and view the document using the network.
If you want to view the company’s annual report stored on a co-worker’s
computer, you can use the network to access the document on that computer.
If you want to listen to music stored on a computer in another room, you can
use the network to access the music files.