Network Drive (aka Network Share)

A network drive is a data storage volume that your computer recognizes as a hard drive, but that is physically located somewhere else. Your computer treats a network drive just like any other hard drive, allowing you to create, transfer, and delete files as you like (for example, if you're working on a paper in Word, you can save it to a network drive the same way you would normally). The process by which you tell your computer that it should treat a certain network volumes as a network drive is referred to as "mounting."

Example: If you've every used a Windows machine in a Pomona computer lab, you may have noticed that it has your network userspace mounted as a network drive (usually the H: drive).