Drive Mappings
Following a plan like the one shown in the section Setting Up a Data File Storage Server is important. If you don't, your workgroup ends up with a drive-mapping scheme that looks like a bowl of spaghetti. You don't want everybody in the network to be connected to everybody else's machines and drives. Point everybody in the workgroup to one machine for storage of working data files, and you'll always be able to find what you're looking for.
Suppose that you have a 10-user workgroup. If you set up the network in full peer-to-peer fashion, so that everyone is looking for files stored on other people's computers, your drive mappings look like Figure 42.1.
You can see why this kind of drive mapping is called spaghetti-code mapping. ...
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