Chapter 5 Tutorials

5After the mapping is done, you can then simply copy and paste or drag and drop files from/to your local computer’s drives to or from this network folder. Just like the NSA’s share was another folder on your computer.

Now that Bob has mapped Jimmy’s share to Jimmy’s computer, he can go through the steps again to map Kevin’s share to Kevin’s computer.

5.9.5 Accessing a Share Using FTP

You can also use FTP to access the NSA. Suppose Jimmy is temporarily using a different computer and wants to access his share without mapping it to the computer. This is how he would do it.

1Open the FTP client (Windows Explorer is used here) and type “ftp://username@server” where “username” is the account’s username and “server” is the NSA’s IP address or server name.

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