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5 After the mapping is done, you can then simply copy and paste or drag and drop files from/to your
local computer’s drives to or from this network folder. Just like the NSA’s share was another folder
on your computer.
Now that Bob has mapped Jimmy’s share to Jimmy’s computer, he can go through the steps again
to map Kevin’s share to Kevin’s computer.
5.9.5 Accessing a Share Using FTP
You can also use FTP to access the NSA. Suppose Jimmy is temporarily using a different computer
and wants to access his share without mapping it to the computer. This is how he would do it.
1 Open the FTP client (Windows Explorer is used here) and type “ftp://username@server” where
“username” is the account’s username and “server” is the NSA’s IP address or server name.