For security reasons CHMs can't run on a network or the web. Peter's link explains it.
You would need to send them everything in the output folder (htm, jpg, css, js). You can zip up the folder to copy elsewhere.
Another option might be to use the Publish feature. It's designed to publish your output to a web server, but you can easily publish to a network drive, if there's a common location they would be happy to grab it from. They then need to copy everything from the publish folder; you can't pick and choose to copy just some files.
On a side note, you might think "I'll just generate directly to the network folder" and save a step. i wouldn't personally recommend this.
1. Generating deletes everything from the folder you're generating to. So you lose a known working copy if anything goes wrong with the generation. And if someone is copying from there at the time that will mess up what they're doing.
2. There's a lot going on during the generation process and any small network glitches might mess up the generation. The publish process is much simpler and is designed for uploading to a web server so would take in to account possible small network issues. (That last is a bit of a theory on my part, not being an Adobe employee, but I think the logic is sound.)
(This is just my opinon on generating to the network, rather than an official Adobe recommendation.)
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