In addition to being useful for collaborative business use, shared network folders can also come in handy when it comes to backing up your business computers. The Backup and Restore feature of Windows ...

You may recall from our episode on starting your Mac using NetBoot images that using a NetBoot image requires you to go through the setup process every time you restarted your Mac. This sounds useless ...

With Windows 7, you can more easily share files and printers across a network via the new HomeGroups feature. HomeGroups lets you connect to files and printers with a group password–if all the PCs ...

In this article, we will explore how to install and configure File Server on Windows Server and install the necessary roles, configure shared folders, manage permission, and ensure security. Suppose ...

If you have to work on both a Windows PC and a Mac, you probably have to transfer files between the two. Here's how to set up file sharing so you can view select folders on the other desktop over your ...

In order to share files on a network in the past "classic" Mac operating system, you had to access and set up items in several locations. First, you needed to enable file sharing in one location, then ...

The Offline Files feature in Windows 11/10 lets users make their files and folders available offline even if they are not connected to a network. This makes sharing common files across organizations ...

I have two Win7 x64 boxen, and a Windows Home Server with various shares (read/write access for my user accounts). To selectively share music between the two PCs, I've currently been manually copying ...

The “Libraries” feature within Windows 7 can be extremely useful, as it allows you to aggregate folders from multiple hard drives to create a single folder. If you had 3 or 4 hard drives, each with ...