Quick question on Win7 and existing Home Networks

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Current situation:

I have a HTPC in the living room running WinXP SP2 and also a PS3 and a PS3 in the other living room. The HTPC is running MediaPortal and is hard-wired into my router (Netgear 108Mbps) which is in my bedroom.

All my shared content is on a 1.5Tb "F" drive which is in my main pc in the bedroom. The PS3's access it via TVersity via Wireless.

Basically what im going to do is:

- build a new rig,
- install win7 on it,
- re-attach the existing F drive, make sure it is "F" drive,
- share it across the network so my HTPC and PS3's can see it and stream content from it (wired and wireless),
- call the new rig "MAIN-PC" (as existing),
- group will be called "WORKGROUP" (as existing).

Would this mean my HTPC and PS3's will not need to be tinkered with as the domain and network names will be as existing (except on a new rig running win7 64bit) and also the shared drive will have the same drive letter (and thus the directory look up should stay the same)?

If not then im screwed as i will have to re-download all IMDB info in MediaPortal on my HTPC as this takes ages and ages!
 
So long as the user and password remains the same for the credentials used to access the shared resource, it won't be a problem.
 
from what I can gather, this F drive is basically just a network share? thant MediaPortal and your PS3's connect to? if so then as long as the PC has the same name as the old one, is on the same workgroup etc and all the sharing has been setup right I dont see why it wouldnt work
 
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