Home Net work on a win7 32 & 64 bit pc's

[Ballie]

I have got a desktop pc running on win7 32 bit and I just bought myself a laptop running on win7 64 bit (both are win7 Home Premium).

I have a wireless router (a BT HOME HUB 2, which is hard wired to the desktop pc) I want to be able to connect my laptop to the home desktop pc via a wireless connection and look at files/folders etc and swap things between the two pc’s over the wireless network. I assume this is called networking two pc's (sorry for my ignorance)

Can I do this and is it easy to set up.

Thanks for any help guys

 

[Lomai]

Hi

Have a look at the following SF Tutorials:

How to Create a Homegroup in Windows 7

How to Join or Add a Computer to a Windows 7 Homegroup

Homegroup - Change File and Folder Sharing Settings

These should get you started for now.
Keep us posted on your progress and if you have any issues

Regards

 

[Lomai]

I have a wireless router (a BT HOME HUB 2, which is hard wired to the desktop pc) I want to be able to connect my laptop to the home desktop pc via a wireless connection and look at files/folders etc and swap things between the two pc’s over the wireless network. I assume this is called networking two pc's (sorry for my ignorance)

Can I do this and is it easy to set up.

Thanks for any help guys

Just re-read your post

Please read this also -Configuring the BT Home Hub

Regards

 

[Ballie]

thanks but I ve spent 3 hours and can't work it out I my pc says I am joined to a home group but there is NO option to join or share. I have to get someone in to sort it out but thanks anyway.

 

[Lomai]

Hi

Have a look at this tutorial and let us know how things turn out.

Homegroup - Change File and Folder Sharing Settings

Regards

Edit

Posted the wrong link
Try this to tutorial to check whether it resolves your shares

Homegroup - Add Computer or Join

 

[Ballie]

Lomai, thanks for helping.

I ve had another play with making a home group and it's all sorted, I have got my laptop accessing my home pc (but it won't accesss my music it says the folder is emty butit isn't) but i cant get my home pc to open files on my lap top could it be because my laptop is 64 bit and my home pc is 32 bit ?

 

[chev65]

Lomai, thanks for helping.

I ve had another play with making a home group and it's all sorted, I have got my laptop accessing my home pc (but it won't accesss my music it says the folder is emty butit isn't) but i cant get my home pc to open files on my lap top could it be because my laptop is 64 bit and my home pc is 32 bit ?

For this problem most likely you need to adjust the permissions.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/24232-sharing-permissions.html?filter

 

[Lomai]

Lomai, thanks for helping.

I ve had another play with making a home group and it's all sorted, I have got my laptop accessing my home pc (but it won't accesss my music it says the folder is emty butit isn't) but i cant get my home pc to open files on my lap top could it be because my laptop is 64 bit and my home pc is 32 bit ?

For this problem most likely you need to adjust the permissions.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/24232-sharing-permissions.html?filter

Thanks chev for helping out +1.

Ballie

Try what chev has posted in relation to permissions.

If you are still not able to share the folder, try right-clicking the music folder and under the homegroup flyout menu, enable access (read or read/write) as applicable.
Have a look at the attached if you need clarification on the right-click context.

Have a good read through on the Homegroup - Change File and Folder Sharing Settings as this details the various methods on how you can enable shares for your homegroup.

Hope things work out and regards

 

[Ballie]

Thanks again, I now got my laptop accessing all my HOME pc files and folders but I still cant get my home pc to open files on my lap top could it be because my laptop is 64 bit and my home pc is 32 bit ?

Anyway thats not the end of the world becase this week I am fitting a new 1 tb hard drive to my home pc and when I install win7 I am going to install the 64 bit version anyway. Once done I will let you know if the home then accesses the laptops files.

 

[chev65]

Sharing from a 64 bit system to a 32 bit system should not be a problem, I do the same myself. I can't imagine what the problem might be but try again after you install the 64 bit Windows 7.

 

[Lomai]

Thanks again, I now got my laptop accessing all my HOME pc files and folders but I still cant get my home pc to open files on my lap top could it be because my laptop is 64 bit and my home pc is 32 bit ?

Anyway thats not the end of the world becase this week I am fitting a new 1 tb hard drive to my home pc and when I install win7 I am going to install the 64 bit version anyway. Once done I will let you know if the home then accesses the laptops files.

Did you enable shares on both computers?
You will need to enable sharing on your laptop the same way you did with the desktop

Regards