After being asked by my brother on numerous situations, and needing to access files from around the house, I think I might set up a network drive to share files.
My understanding of a network drive is that it essentially a hard drive that can be accessed from any computer in the home network. We have 2 computers connected, as well as 3 laptops - all of the laptops are wireless, and the computers are wired.
I was planning to install a second hard drive in my computer (500GB or so) - but can I set this to be a network drive, so that everyone can access it and add files, whether it is music, video or pictures?
If so, how would I go about doing this? Many thanks in advance.
Also, we have a mixture of Vista, XP and Linux (on the netbook).
Any more questions, please ask. All suggestions are welcome!
Edit 1: Just to clarify, this seems similar to a file server, but I want to do it without needing another PC, i.e. just running it from a spare HDD on my current PC.
My understanding of a network drive is that it essentially a hard drive that can be accessed from any computer in the home network. We have 2 computers connected, as well as 3 laptops - all of the laptops are wireless, and the computers are wired.
I was planning to install a second hard drive in my computer (500GB or so) - but can I set this to be a network drive, so that everyone can access it and add files, whether it is music, video or pictures?
If so, how would I go about doing this? Many thanks in advance.
Also, we have a mixture of Vista, XP and Linux (on the netbook).
Any more questions, please ask. All suggestions are welcome!
Edit 1: Just to clarify, this seems similar to a file server, but I want to do it without needing another PC, i.e. just running it from a spare HDD on my current PC.
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