October 2015
Beginner
888 pages
21h 17m
English
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Chapter 40Using Shared Resources
Chapters 38 and 39 covered all the basics of setting up and sharing resources on a private home or small business network. This chapter assumes that you've done that. Nothing in this chapter will work until the network is set up, you've turned on network sharing and discovery on each Windows 7, Window 8/8.1, and Windows 10 computer, and you've shared some files on the network.
This chapter looks at how you find and use shared resources from computers within the network. It looks at opening documents from remote resources, moving and copying files between networked computers, using remote printers, and ways of using shared media.
UNC Paths
Before diving too deeply into methods for accessing network resources, let's take some time to delve into a topic that will help you navigate network resources more easily — UNC paths.
UNC stands for Universal Naming Convention. A UNC path is expressed in the form:
\\MachineName\PathNameMachineName is the name of the computer and PathName is a folder path on that computer. For example, assume that your network includes a computer named SNOOPY that you use as a file server. On that computer is a folder that you have shared as SharedDocs. Within that SharedDocs folder is a subfolder named Contracts. The UNC path to the Contracts folder ...
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