Share printers (and some other devices, like scanners) – Do you have a photo printer attached to one PC, and a high-quality laser printer attached to another? Sharing the printers allows you to print to any printer from any PC. If you print a lot of different types of things, you might have one printer loaded with envelopes, say, and another with letterhead paper (or one with legal paper and another with letter-size), for example, to save the hassle of changing the paper for every different print job!
Share files – Does more than one person need to work on a document or spreadsheet? No need to copy the file back and forth via floppy, you simply put the file in a “shared documents” folder (or other shared location) and all the PCs in the network can have access to it! Or, place the favorite family photographs in a shared location to be enjoyed by all.
