Sal, mapping a drive is the process of assigning a local networked computer to yours or another computer within the network. For example, lets say your company has 3 computers, yours, comp1, and comp2. Rather than have to use ip addresses or put files on a floppy disk to share, you can assign the other computers a drive letter on the host computer. So in our scenario, your computer has an A:, a C: and a D: drive. You wish to share files with the other computers easily. You go to Explorer and click Tools, then Map Network Drive, choose a drive letter other than A, C, or D and then Browse to the computer you wish to connnect to. Now, this computer will show up within the Explorer window and allow you to drag and drop files between computers. To see which computer share the same side of a network as yours, click Start, Run, type: cmd. When the command window opens type: Net View, any and all the computers listed in this display are computers that you can map a drive to. One other note, these computers must have there drives setup as Shared. To do this go to the computer, double click on My Computer and right click on the disk you wish to share, choose Share, assign a name for the share, usually the same as the drive letter, click Apply and you should see a small hand under the drive that is now shared.
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