Sharing Files with Windows Users on Your Network
One of the main reasons for connecting to a network (apart from accessing the Internet) is to share files between computers. You might be familiar with this concept already; network shares are used in many workplaces, and you may have even set one up before on your home network. For the uninitiated, a network share is a folder on another computer that you can access as if it were on your own. Files are transferred around on the network, so there's no need to use a portable hard disk or flash drive to get them from one place to another.
Accessing Files Stored on a Windows Computer
Network shares are a two-way thing: You can either share your files with others by creating a shared folder or access existing ...
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