Microsoft MN-130 - Manual (Page 31)

Chapter 4: Network Tasks 27
Sharing Other Peripheral Devices
In addition to sharing most printers, you can share storage
devices—such as hard drives, CD-ROM drives, and Zip drives—on
your network. In general, any kind of drive represented by a drive
letter (such as D:\) can be shared.
Storage devices that are not assigned a drive letter (such as tape
drives) cannot be shared. Tape backups of your computer must be
done from the computer that is attached to the tape drive.
In general, scanners, cameras, and CD-ROM burners cannot be
shared with your network.
Reading E-Mail Messages
You can access your e-mail messages from each networked
computer the same way that you would access e-mail messages
without a network (assuming that you have an Internet connection).
Open your e-mail program, or, if you have a Web-based e-mail
account, sign in to your account through your Internet browser.
Keep in mind the following: If you download e-mail messages from
your e-mail account to one computer, those messages will not be
accessible from the other computers on your network. Likewise, if
you share an account with another person, and he or she
downloads mail from the shared account to one computer on the
network, you will not see that mail when you access the account
from another computer.
To illustrate this point, let’s say you share a postal mailbox at your
home with your spouse. If you come home first and take the letters
out of the mailbox, they will no longer be inside the mailbox when
your spouse comes home later and checks for mail.
If you want your e-mail messages to remain available to all users of
your network at any time, you should not download the messages
to one computer. (However, you should delete old messages from
your e-mail account on a regular basis, so that you don’t exceed
the storage space given to you by your e-mail provider.)