You may have heard the slogan anytime, anywhere, which today is used by most technology companies. Given the flexibility offered by Windows 10, which has to do with accessing your data from the HomeGroup at home, the LAN at work, and on the go from the internet, it can be said that Windows 10 has been built to enable data access anytime from anywhere. In the following sections of this chapter, you will get acquainted with the different ways you can configure sharing of files and printers, as well as how you can set permissions on your shared files and printers so you can control access to your data and printers.
The file and print services are as old as the computer networks themselves! I say that because computer networks were born out of the need to share resources. Thus, file and print services were among the pioneering services in computer networks. Nowadays, these two services have been transformed into essential services, whether...