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My Network Places shows remote resources in Windows Me, 2000 and XP. In all other versions of Windows, it is called Network Neighborhood.
This icon will appear on your desktop if you are connected to a network of computers. When you left click on the Network Neighborhood icon you will see a menu listing the other computers attached to yours. Putting computers on a network allows you to share resources such as documents or programs between different computers. Here is an example of the network at the Faculty Resource Center.
Each terminal icon with a name next to it represents a different computer on the network. Every machine on the network has its own unique name. For example Sys1, Sys2 and Sys3 are separate computers running in the lab. If you left click the icon in Network Neighborhood you will see which drives are shared.
When a drive is shared it means that other computers on the network can see the contents of that drive. In this example the C hard drive has been shared so we can go in and look at files on Sys1. We can even run some programs that are on Sys1 even if we are on a different computer in the lab.
