GUI for Network Shares ?

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Anyone know of a nice GUI to show and administer network shares in an XP environment ?

I have an "always on" download machine, and share various folders to all the other PCs in my house. I keep forgetting what I called the share, anything easier to administer them all together ?

Thanks
Pinkeyes
 
I would be interested in that too. I made a thread about an alternative to windows shared folders but a more responsive interface would be good too.
 
Right click My Computer>Manage> Shared Folders. That not an option for you ?

shared_folders.jpg
 
ns400r said:
Right click My Computer>Manage> Shared Folders. That not an option for you ?

shared_folders.jpg


Pinkeyes said:
There is an mmc snap in that shows Shares, but it won't allow me to set them up there...

Yup, said it was.

NathanE said:
Start->Run->"\\mycomputersname"->OK... then you can see all the shares on that PC.

Yes, but not hidden shares. That's half the problem, it's easy to forget what you called the share and you have to go to the machine to find out.
 
If you right click computer management at the top of the tree and select connect to another computer..., you can connect to another PC on the network via its netbios name or its IP.
 
Why are you even setting up hidden shares? Surely you can just connect to the computer with \\<computername\C$

C$ is a hidden share itself, same goes for D$ etc. gives you access to everything.
 
You cant control access to the administrative shares though. You can lock down other 'hidden' (they're not really, it's crap) shares however you desire.

A common use is to hide your installation source shares so that a nosey/bored user cant find them, and then write protect them so they cant go dicking about with them.

To answer the OP, I either use ssh (though granted that's not there by default), or Computer Management remotely.
 
Kami said:
Why are you even setting up hidden shares? Surely you can just connect to the computer with \\<computername\C$

C$ is a hidden share itself, same goes for D$ etc. gives you access to everything.

Whenever I try to connect to C$ or D$ I get a password box, with;

remotemachinesname\Guest

but it is greyed out and I can't edit it to put the administrator username in it.

So I can't connect to them.
 
make sure your on that PC as the same username/password as you have on the PC your using to connect to it (and the user is an admin). Usually find that sorts it, except once.. where it just wouldn't EVER work!
 
When I was as school I found a piece of software that enabled you to search for folders which were shared on a network/workgroup. Is this the type of thing you require?

I have the install file somewhere. If I can rememebr the name of it then I'll tell you.

EDIT:

Not the one I used but I think SoftPerfect Network Scanner will do the job you need.
 
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