1. Double-click on the Network Neighborhood icon.
The Network Neighborhood window appears, listing all the computers on the network.
2. Double-click on the icon of the computer containing the file you want to access.
A window for that computer opens, listing the resources available on the computer. If you've made all its hard drives available, for example, you see a folder for each hard drive. Or if you shared only a single folder on that computer, you see only that single folder.
3. Double-click on the folder containing the file you'd like to access.
Keep clicking on folders until you find the file you want.
4. Access the file.
You can copy the file to your own computer by dragging and dropping it there. Or you can simply double-click on the file to start editing it while leaving it physically on the other computer.
TIPS:
1. If you cannot move the file, perhaps you only have Read Only access to that computer's drives or folders. Better check out my article on 'Sharing' for information on how to give yourself more access.
2. After you open the window to access another computer on the network, Windows 98 treats that computer as if it were a plain old folder on your desktop. You can copy your own files onto that computer by dragging and dropping them onto that folder. You can even run programs off other computers by double-clicking on them.
3. When you put your CD-ROM drive on the network as a shared hard drive, all your computers can grab information from it.
4. Feel free to make shortcuts to your most-often-used folders and files on your networked computers. That saves the time and hassles of running through the 'Network Neighborhood' each time you want to grab something popular.
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