How Do You Map A Network Drive?
Mapping a network drive allows you to access the software and files on another computer on your network. This drive will be always available whenever you start up your computer, and since it is mapped, you will not need to go looking for it whenever you want something off that computer. The drive you are mapping to needs to be shared–using Windows file sharing–then you can easily take advantage of network mapping.This works very well for small home networks, where the computers share certain drives, such as external hard drives, CD-DVD drives and even their own hard drives. This allows all users access to resources on all of the computers, all the time. For example, if one computer has just downloaded all of the pictures from the digital camera, but the best photo manipulation software is on another computer, a person on the other computer can import pictures into the software and work with them, then save the revised picture back to the original computer. All of this without using a
