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Having just got my new home 10baseT TCP/IP LAN going, I'm now learning
how to use it. A couple of very basic questions about working in
Win9x:

1. AIUI My Computer, Windows Explorer and Network Neighbourhood are
all slightly different instances of the same thing. My Computer seems
to just display information about the local PC - maybe not
surprisingly! But is there any functional difference between WE and NN
for accessing the network? Cosmetics aside, does one do anything
network-related that the other doesn't? Or is the functionality of WE
simply divided into MC and NN as a way of 'simplifying' (ie
mystifying) the local and LAN aspects of the system?

2. I understand - I think - about how to set up shared resources eg
files on diffferent networked PCs, but what about copying or moving
files from one PC to another across the network. Does Cut/Paste or
dragging in eg WE work the same as on the local PC or is there more to
it across the network? Reason for asking is that leafing through an
introductory book on networks, the topic of FTP is raised very early
in talking about file transfer. I'm obviously familiar with FTP in the
Internet context, but surely there are other ways of doing file
transfer between PCs on a small LAN?

Regards
John Dann