2 Computer Network

Jock · 1 Oct 2012 at 19:01

I did this about a month ago in a new computer and it all seemed fairly straight forward but nothings easy and I now have a different computer but cant seem to get it to work properly.

All I want is to be able to see and edit the full contents of the various hard drives on all computers.

Last time I was sure it was straight forward but this time, I can see them when i go to explorer>network but when i click on them it says i cant access them because i dont have permission.

Having done some googling i came up with one solution which does work but i know its not what i done before so wondering if, although it does the same, theres an easier way to do it.

The one i'm using is that you have to go into the drives properties, go into security, create a bew group called 'everyone' and give it full access.

Am i doing this wrong?

Mr. Peri Peri · 1 Oct 2012 at 22:05

What OS is the new and existing computers running on?

I take it communications are in place and they can ping each other etc?

Jock · 1 Oct 2012 at 22:41

Yeah they can both see each other no problem.

As for the OS, both are windows 7 though one is home premium the other professional.

bremen1874 · 1 Oct 2012 at 23:42

Didn’t MS introduce the concept of the Homegroup to make this sort of thing easy?

I don’t do much work on home networks, but the one time I did setup a Homegroup it was simple enough to do and worked as expected.

Jock · 2 Oct 2012 at 08:14

From what I could see and i may well be wrong, homegroup seemed quite limited in what you could share, like pictures, documents etc as opposed to entire drives.

Mr. Peri Peri · 2 Oct 2012 at 12:16

So in the properties of the file/folder/drive you want to share you should be able to enable sharing.

If you then browse the machine with the shared drive over the network from the other machine (e.g. in explorer \\ip_goes_here\ (\\192.168.1.22\) ) then do you get a list of the shares on that machine? If not, do you get an error?

blastman · 2 Oct 2012 at 15:08

just go 'start', 'run' or press the windows key and 'R' and type in the following;

\\ip.address.of.other.pc\c$

The c$ bit, tells the machine to open the root of the C drive. if you want to access any other dirve on that machine, replace the C with the drive letter.

Ie, i dont have a cd drive in one of my laptops, so i put the cd in another one and on the one without it, go \\ip.address\e$ (e being my cd drive)

If it asks for a user, make sure you use an account on the remote machine.

job done.

edit: the $ tells the machine to show the hidden shares. The root of drives in windows are shared but hidden by default. I have a share at work thats hidden. it has all the application exe's in and I access it with \\server_name\apps$