[access-uk] Re: Setting up a home network
- From: "Elliott Barnes" <elliottabarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:07:28 +0100
Hi,
Yes it helps a lot, thanks for the explination.
Cheers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob" <temp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:30:30 +0100
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Setting up a home network
> Hi
>
> If you open my computer and put focus on the drive, press your
applications
> key and select properties.
> Find the sharing tab.
>
> The contents of this tab will vary greatly by which version of windows you
> are running. You may get a link warning you about sharing the root of the
> drive.
> If you do press enter on it.
>
> If XP check the box to share it and enter a name to share it as and then
> check the box for allowing the desktop to change files if you want to be
> able to save to it as well.
>
> In Windows 7 press the advanced sharing button then check the share box
and
> enter a name to share it as. You will need to go into the permissions
button
> to allow the desktop to write to the shared drive.
>
> Once this is set up, to connect to the drive from the desktop you will
need
> to open my computer and in the address bar type \\NETBOOKS_COMPUTERNAME\
> You should then get a view of anything shared from the netbook.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
> Elliott Barnes
> Sent: 28 August 2010 11:24
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Setting up a home network
>
> Hi all,
> Ok, here's my situation.
> I currently have a netbook and a desktop.
> As you can probably guess, my desktop is my primary machine, where as my
> netbook is fantastic when I'm out-and-about at other peoples houses, etc.
> I also have a 160 GB external hard rive that's usually connected to my
> netbook so that if I need to, I can easily access my files.
> Both of my machines are connected via WLAN to my home network.
> I've recently decided that I want to be able to make the files on my 160
GB
> drive available to my PC, and I obviously understand that this would only
> work if the drive was plugged into my netbook.
> I've done some research on the Internet, but all the sites that I've
looked
> at don't makes much sence.
> I was wondering, does anyone know how I would do this?
> Thanks a lot,
> Elliott.
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