File sharing over remote desktop not working.

[Tadroptopgirl]

I have two laptops an ASUS with windows 7 ultimate and the other with windows 7 home premium. I also have a built desktop with windows server 2008 r2. I have enabled remote connection on the server and can log on with all of the user accounts. But I can not file share when I have remotely connected to the desktop using remote desktop connection. I have enabled printer and clipboard and then went in to more and selected the drive i wanted to share. I then logged on to remote desktop and the drive is not listed in computer management or in my computer. How can I fix this? Is it an issue in the windows server os that I need to do? Thank you for your help in advance!!!!

 

[tman69]

remote desktop connections allow you to 'control' a computer remotely--but--does not give you file sharing capabilities. You need to assign volumes on the server as 'shared' and then mount the 'volume(s)' on your laptops

 

[Tadroptopgirl]

The server and the two laptops are not on the same network connection. I put the shared path with the ip address in the map network drives and it couldnt find the host.

 

[tman69]

The server and the two laptops are not on the same network connection. I put the shared path with the ip address in the map network drives and it couldnt find the host.

they NEED to be on the same network--you'll need to do some 'server' research to determine how to network all this together--I know very little about servers--except how to mount them when they're on the same network.

perhaps someone else can assist...