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Community => Games & Programming => Topic started by: Jason on Monday, May 16, 2011, 21:58:45 PM
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well i have 2 computers at my house now along with my laptop. For a while i had them all "talking" to one another where i could be on one computer and just go to My Network Places and be able to access the files of the other two computers. But it seems that this only works for a while because it always seems like i am trying fix it because they randomly stop wanting to talk with one another and its really getting frustrating. I just want to be able to type and important document and quickly be able to save it to the other computers (keeping them synced) to ensure its backed up and easily accessible. Is there another way to do this? is this the best and easiest way? if it is, can you tell me how to hook up 2 Windows XP computers and a Windows 7 laptop? hahah
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Dropbox makes it easy:
http://dropbox.com (http://db.tt/Nw4hJSr)
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oh i see what you did there
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Ah damn, I was tryin to be sneaky :P Still though, it's a great program and you benefited from the referral too.
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What software are you running on your server? cos seems to me that all you need is a domain name intead of a workgroup, with a domain inside your network it will be easy as hell to share printers network drives applications, and even configuration for all your laptops...
If you are still intersted let me know i'll be on msn all day long and i can help you out.
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Usually you must have the computers have the same workgroup name. Then in my computer theres an menu option in the tools menu to map the network drives. Use this to turn the remote computers HD's into HD's you can see in my computer. Something like that.
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Use this to turn the remote computers HD's into HD's you can see in my computer. Something like that.
Map network drive. I wasn't going to get into this but if he didn't like Dropbox, I would google for a tutorial on how to do it.
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i mean, dropbox is nifty and all...but idk...still unsure about it since its just one folder and theres a limit to how much can be in there. I like the whole setting up a home network thingy
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Ok, then this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301281
combined with this:
http://www.vista4beginners.com/Map-Network-Drive
should work out for you.
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! internetz for nate!
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i put all 3 computers under the same workgroup name and now they all seem to be talking to each other...well sort of. my Windows 7 laptop can talk to my other 2 Windows XP computers but my XP computers cannot talk to my Laptop (the 2 XP's however can talk with each other). any ideas on how to make the XP's talk to the laptop?
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Workgroup doesn't matter anymore. I'm pretty sure mine aren't the same yet they can still share networked folders. Common problem is that the computer you're sharing files on needs to have a user account with a password (so the other computers can login).
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i put all 3 computers under the same workgroup name and now they all seem to be talking to each other...well sort of. my Windows 7 laptop can talk to my other 2 Windows XP computers but my XP computers cannot talk to my Laptop (the 2 XP's however can talk with each other). any ideas on how to make the XP's talk to the laptop?
Every computer must have a pasword and a username to log in or it wont work should be something like:
yourworgroup\username
pasword here
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7 is more secure than XP. You need to poke thru the control panel and check some of the network options for sharing on the 7 computer. Or try google.