Posted: 11/25/2009 10:15:19 AM EDT
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I have a couple desk tops and laptops.
Desk tops are hardwired in to the router and the laptops are wireless. I would like to be able to be able to access my external hard drives that are connected to the desktop from any of the laptops and other desk tops. I am using a Linksys Wireless-G wrt54gs router. Any advice or links where i can figure this out ? Desktops are Xp and laptop are vista. |
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Easier to show, than it is to comprehensively explain in writing. I'll look for a link and post it, unless somebody beats me to it. In short: You just need to use the file sharing facilities that already exist in both XP and Vista. Right click on a folder, and select sharing. Read what it says. To access it from another computer on your home network, the address is \\computerName\sharedFolderName If you get stuck want more info than that, I'll need to post a link because I ain't typing it all out.  |
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I'm not going to be a tremendous help, but here goes
make sure all systems are part of the same "workgroup" as that will allow you to share resources. you will need to share the drive(s) and MIGHT need to create accounts that match (name & pass) on the desktop with external drives - I'm not 100% on whether you need to create those accounts also, Vista machines can not see XP systems not running SP3+ on the network, you need to download a special patch/driver and install it on the XP machines. don't have the link, sorry. LLTD driver for XP prior to SP3 that's all I got, I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will chime in. |