Yes, it's basically what Netware was, and Novell was a HUGE company.

SMB (samba) is also from the DOS era. Most people only know of it from Windows, though.

There were various other ways to make network "drives" as the DOS drive interface was very simplistic and easy to grab onto.

It was rare to find this stuff until Win95 make network connections "free" (before then, you had to buy the networking hardware and often the software, separately!).