October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1176 pages
27h 33m
English
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Transferring Files Between Computers
Moving and copying files on a LAN is virtually identical to doing so on a single computer. You can use any of the techniques described in Chapter 28 to select, move, or copy files from any folder on your own computer to any shared folder or from any shared folder to any folder on your own computer. You can also use those same techniques to move and copy files between shared folders on any two remote computers on the network.
For example, let’s say you’re sitting at a computer named Hobbes, and you have a bunch of files in a subfolder named Rob-PC\Common Downloads on a computer named Rob-PC. So, the UNC path would be \\Rob-PC\SharedDocs\Common Downloads. You want to copy one or more files to the Downloads folder of your own user account on HP-Rob. Just open the Network folder. Then open the Rob-PC 
SharedDocs Common Downloads folder. Then, open the Documents folder for your user account. It might be easiest if you size and position the windows so you can see the contents of both, as in Figure 51.4.
FIGURE 51.4 Remote shared folder (top) and local folder (bottom)
With both folders open, as in the figure, you can select the files you want to copy ...
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