Computer File Sharing Problem [Archive]

A15G

07-15-09, 02:04 PM

We (my family) have wireless interenet, we want to share our files to where we can access ones computers files from a different computer. We've found how to do that, but since I have 2 hard drives, ill have to put the files from my slave to my main for them to see. Is there a way to just link it to my slave so they can just click a shorcut to go to it?

MonkeyMhz

07-15-09, 02:18 PM

We (my family) have wireless interenet, we want to share our files to where we can access ones computers files from a different computer. We've found how to do that, but since I have 2 hard drives, ill have to put the files from my slave to my main for them to see. Is there a way to just link it to my slave so they can just click a shorcut to go to it?

Isn't there something when you right click properties and go to advanced or something that allows you to share a folder. That should work.

SuperMiguel

07-15-09, 02:25 PM

yep u right click on the hard drive, click on sharing and share it over the network. Then on your client, open my computer, click on tools then click on map network drive, put the address of you HD, assign a letter to it and good to go

A15G

07-15-09, 05:35 PM

Thanks, it worked like a charm =]

SuperMiguel

07-15-09, 10:19 PM

Thanks, it worked like a charm =]

np take care buddy

deadlysyn

07-25-09, 12:48 AM

yep u right click on the hard drive, click on sharing and share it over the network. Then on your client, open my computer, click on tools then click on map network drive, put the address of you HD, assign a letter to it and good to go

+1 for the network drive. My wife gets confused when I try to explain to her how to get to a particular folder on my rig, so I just setup network drives to the ones I know she needs to access, so I can just tell her "Start-Computer-J:, and she can find what she needs from there.

Edit: If I were to start dual booting with Linux, like I want to, she would probably kill me trying to get access to files on the Windows drive. I haven't had much luck with network shares between Ubuntu and Windows. They don't seem to want to play nicely with eachother.