This page is a short description of some of those features you should be aware of as you begin to work in the Kenyon computing environment. A personal computer connected to the network treats files on network drives as if the files were stored on one of its local disk drives, making it very easy to save and move your files from one drive or directory to another, whether they are local or on the network. Since all computers on the network are connected to the fileserver, it is possible to share files and programs among computers. A second critical difference is that each user has access to only certain storage areas on the network drives. For example, departmental directories are accessible only to the members of that department.
Personal directories are accessible only to the individual user.
There are two important advantages to storing your files on one of the network fileservers instead of on your local hard drive. Network drives are backed up nightly. If you lose or accidentally delete a file, it can be restored as long as it existed on the network before the last nightly backup. To recover your file. The network drives are available from any networked computer on campus.