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In computing, a shared resource, or network share, is a computer resource made available from one host to other hosts on a computer network. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a device or piece of information on a computer that can be remotely accessed from another computer transparently as if it were a resource in the local machine.
In a review of Google Drive after its launch in April 2012, Dan Grabham of TechRadar wrote that the integration of Google Docs into Google Drive was "a bit confusing", mainly due to the differences in the user interfaces between the two, where Drive offers a "My Drive" section with a specific "Shared with me" view for shared documents. He ...
GMail Drive was a free third-party Windows Shell namespace extension ("add-on") for Google's Gmail. It allowed a user to access a virtual drive stored in a Gmail account by causing the contents of the Gmail account to appear as a new network share on the user's workstation. GMail Drive was not supported by Google.
Drive mapping is how MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows associate a local drive letter (A-Z) with a shared storage area to another computer (often referred as a File Server) over a network. After a drive has been mapped, a software application on a client's computer can read and write files from the shared storage area by accessing that drive, just ...
F: — First network drive if using Novell NetWare. G: — "Google Drive File Stream" if using Google Drive. H: — "Home" directory on a network server. L: — Dynamically assigned load drive under Concurrent DOS, Multiuser DOS, System Manager and REAL/32. [6] [7] M: — Drive letter for optionally memory drive MDISK under Concurrent DOS. [6]
A storage area network (SAN) or storage network is a computer network which provides access to consolidated, block-level data storage. SANs are primarily used to access data storage devices, such as disk arrays and tape libraries from servers so that the devices appear to the operating system as direct-attached storage .
In computing, a file server (or fileserver) is a computer attached to a network that provides a location for shared disk access, i.e. storage of computer files (such as text, image, sound, video) that can be accessed by workstations within a computer network.
Map Network Drive dialog in Windows 10, connecting to a local SMB network drive. Server Message Block (SMB) is a communication protocol [1] used to share files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network.