The Home group actually did the trick. After setting up the Home group i just had to share the drive and than add it to the library. Not sure if the password i get will have to be entered every time i restart my pc's but i dont hope so because i did not write it down.
Very very easy and simple to make. well done Microsoft, i think win 7 is going to be a winner.
No - you will not have to enter it each time. There is also the facility to change it from the machine generated "random" password to something more to your liking. If/when you do that, you will have to refresh the password on each connected computer.
We have some computers in a lab that are in a different LAN than the computers in the office:
Office LAN: 171.31.36.0/25
Lab LAN: 171.30.95.128/25
From the Office LAN I can access shared folders on the Lab LAN computers by mapping them as network drives.
Now I set up a new computer in...
i've enabled homeshare and now can't seem to turn it off. All users on the workgroup can see all folders in homeshare. Which isn't what i want i just want to share the documents folder and that's it. ive turned off omeshare and they are all sill showing up. I've also right clicked on the documents...
I recently made a folder to share with an XP machine. When I look at the network through my seven machine I see the folder I shared and the USERS folder shared as well. Why is that?
I have the network setup at a home network. 7100 32 bit.
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The title doesn't make sense, as I had to abbreviate it. I was just hoping that someone could tell me whether or not there's a fairly simple way to share folders from my computer with someone else over the internet, in the same way I can share folders with other people in my...
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I'm new here and already got a big problem, that I ask you guys to help me solve it!:o
I have a desktop PC with Windows XP Pro SP3 and a notebook with Windows 7 Pro. Both are connected in a wireless router (desktop by cable and notebook "by air"), and they are in the same...