Apple was the first computer company to make networked file sharing easy. Decades after introducing that feature on the Mac, it’s less important in an era of cloud storage. Unless you’re on a corporate network–and often even so–it’s easier to push files to a central repository by copying them to a folder or volume on your desktop that syncs. Cloud storage also bypasses network configuration issues, like the dread “double NAT,” which can prevent making file-exchange connections over the internet.
Still, it’s frequently helpful to allow access to files stored on your
