Networking your computers provides you with a platform to share files and information. You can network two computers or thousands of machines together. For small networks, a Windows workgroup allows you to share information in your home or small office. To move the information from one machine to another, a mapped network drive is created. This allows you to read, edit and save information similar to working with files on your local, physical hard drive

Follow these steps

Right-click “My Network Places” on your desktop. If you have Windows Vista or 7, the icon is labeled “Network.” Select “Map Network Drive” from the menu.
Enter a location for the remote computer drive. Enter “\\computer_name\c$” into the text box if you want to access information from another computer’s “C” drive, for instance. Replace “computer_name” with the name of the computer. The “C” drive always has a dollar sign suffix.
Click “Finish.” The network drive is mapped to your machine. Double-click “My Computer” on your machine’s desktop to verify it is complete and to start downloading files from the remote machine. If you have Vista or Windows 7, the icon is labeled “Computer.”
Double-click the new mapped drive. The mapped drive has a letter next to it, and it displays the location of the remote machine’s folder. You can now download files from the mapped drive to the local “C” drive and also double-click files to edit and read them from the remote machine.