>You're right - the exe is listed under the taskmanager / processes on the local PC. So, somehow, loading from the server, it runs locally, but knows the data files are on the server...
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>So on the games you could get a 'two for' - niiice!

To (over)simplify things, a network share (logically) looks like a local harddisk, and (if things work as expected) the fact that it is a network drive is relatively transparent to the user and software utilizing the network share. The shared drive could be hosted another Windows computer, a Linux box, a Macintosh, or Novell server, etc.