a directory on a remote computer that has been made to look like a hard drive on your machine

a storage drive that is not physically located on your computer

A connection to the hard drive of a remote computer, allowing you to access shared files and directories. You can establish a network drive connection to a directory in the AFS filespace.

usually a hard drive on a building's server that the user has sufficient rights to that allows him/her to back-up files. It is usually the H: drive in Fort Mill.

A disk drive you can access, but that is physically located on another PC on the network. To Windows, it appears to be just another disk drive

A network drive is a remote storage device which can be accessed over a network. Most oftenly they are harddrives in a server.

n. On a local area network, a disk drive whose disk is available to other computers on the network. Access to a network drive might not be allowed to all users of the network; many operating systems contain security provisions that enable a network administrator to grant or deny access to part or all of a network drive. Also called networked drive. See also network directory.