What is a Shared Drive, Shared folder or network Share?
Shared Drive You all have heard something about Shared drive or Network drives like a NAS or a shared drive in the network. The shared dive concept is widely used by organizations, where data needs to be shared from a drive that is not physically available on the computer. Shared Drives are just normally HDD or SSD drives which are being shared among multiple people in a network. There are a number of benefits of using shared drives like: Centralized Management Policy Enforcement Single Sharing space If we talk about Centralised Management means you can upload some sort of common data being shared among people, only those people who have access to that drive will see and can control that data. Secondly, policy enforcement that means if you have set up some sort of group policy and want to enhance or modify security aspects of that shared drive you can simply update group policy or create a group policy and then attach it with your shared drive. Thirdly,