Chapter 9 -- Using and Sharing Files on the Network

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Chapter 9

With Microsoft Windows 2000, using network resources and sharing your own resources with other network users is almost as simple and straightforward as using your own local resources. Browsing a network folder is just like browsing a folder on your own hard disk. Sending a document to a network printer is just like printing at your own computer. The procedures for interacting with one kind of network computer (say, a Microsoft Windows NT server) are identical to the procedures for working with another kind (for example, a Novell NetWare server). You don't have to learn network commands to use your network's resources.

Windows provides support for networks from a number of vendors and supports the simultaneous use of multiple networking protocols. This means that, assuming your network administrator has set up your system properly, you should be able to work successfully in a heterogeneous network environment, enabling you to access computers running Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows for Workgroups, NetWare, and other operating systems.

In this chapter, we'll look at the steps involved in working with programs and documents stored on network computers, as well as at what you need to do to share your own folders and files.