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    Sharing a hard drive on a network

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by thelaxplaya7, Oct 21, 2006.

  1. thelaxplaya7

    thelaxplaya7 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello I am on my laptop, and the server computer (the one that is connected to all of the network things. ie router, printer, hard drive) is only in the next room and regardless of what I can do with just connecting the hd itself to my laptop I want to be able to access files on the network. I type in the address of the computer its connected too and that works, I see the drive (G: ) and I can access just about all of the things except the user profiles and music (this is an old hd that was in my laptop and i upgraded it) It says that it is not accesibile and I do not have permission yada yada so whats up? o btw my laptop is xp pro and the other computer is home, also I have "shared" the drive on the network so where is there anything else that I need to allow? :confused:
     
    thelaxplaya7, Oct 21, 2006
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  2. blue68f100

    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    For music, iTunes has an option that you must mark in preferences to share the files. Don't know about MS, I think there is Update for Digital Rights that may be needed.
     
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  3. kegobeer

    kegobeer 1 hr late but moving fast

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    You cannot access any files or directories that belong to a user (ie: Documents and Settings\xxx\), unless you are that user. It's slightly more difficult to share things between Home and Pro, since Home isn't a networking OS ("crippled" is what I would call it).

    Move the files you want to share into another drive on the "server" computer, like the D: drive. You'll be able to share that new directory.
     
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  4. thelaxplaya7

    thelaxplaya7 Notebook Enthusiast

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    alrught that sounds like it will work so i'll try that insted thanks
     
    thelaxplaya7, Oct 22, 2006
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