Changing the default database location

[Firdosh Dhooka]

I wanted to install mysql community server and workbench on my machine.
So I downloaded and installed it and everything seems working fine.

But now I wanted to change the location of datadir from local to my
network. So I stop the server first using workbench and then change the
datadir under Options File in workbench. Then I am trying to restart the
server, it won't.

Can anyone assist me with the installation?

Thanks
Firdosh