For countless Windows users, understanding how devices communicate across a local network is a foundational tech skill, yet many remain unaware of the simplest way to check their local IP address—a key tidbit needed for troubleshooting, router setup, or secure remote desktop connections. Knowing...
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After replacement of a harddisk in my NAS I want to shovel back about 1 TB files from my PC win10 64 bit to it.
Tried it first with robocopy. File transfers ended when some mp4, some tif files were to be copied. Error message - Other app using them. Resource monitor showed no handles to these...
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I have win10, win7 and winXP on our home LAN.
I have XP because I have a printer that needs XP: no drivers available for any other brand of Windows: a Laserjet 3150. So the printer hangs off that PC as a local printer.
Now I think if I want to access it across the network from these other...
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Hi
If the following is possible.. how do I do it ?
On PC1 I have two users A (Admin) and B (Standard User) and Folder X
On PC2 I have one user C (admin)
PC1 and PC2 are on the same LAN
I want Folder X to be accessible to A and C but not B...
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I am using a computer as a storage area network, which means i have a shared hard drive mapped to 12 computers in the network, since i upgraded the operating system from server 2003 to windows 7 professional 64bit I'm having a problem that only the computers with windows 7 can access the...
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What would be the best way to set up the local network so that
machines can share files and printers with each other?
There is an ADSL-modem/DHCP-server/router/firewall and a wireless hot-spot
connected to it. (Kind of radio extension of the LAN.)
There is an old Windows2000 SP4 desktop...
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Hi there. I have a dual LAN on my motherboard and windows 7 installed. No.1 is connected to the internet and no.2 is my LAN. I connect a second computer with windows 7 to the LAN with crossed Ethernet cable. I have internet connection and file sharing on both computers, however the host computer...
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I have setup a brand new Windows 7 RTM (MSDN subscriber) installation just to test the OS. I have another XP machine also with IE8 & FF3.5 in the same LAN segment and with the same access to the internet and the same applications installed. Corporate firewall rules apply exactly the same...
As title. I have two computers which is connected with cross over cable. Before I activate ICS to share internet connection, I managed to make two computers in a homegroup where they can share files and printer etc. After that, I bridged my 2 LAN cards, and activate the ICS. In my bridges LAN...