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mobile clients
About this tag
The mobile clients tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about connecting and troubleshooting wireless devices on home or small office networks. Topics include workgroup networking, file sharing, and access issues involving laptops, tablets, and other portable computers running Windows or other operating systems. Common themes involve router configuration, Samba setup, and resolving connectivity problems between mobile clients and desktop file servers. The tag is relevant for users managing mixed-OS environments with Windows and Linux systems, and for those seeking help with network discovery and share access errors on mobile devices.
I have a workgroup (versus homegroup) network through a linksys router. There are two mobile wifi clients
Lapdog is an HP, Vista Home
Surface is a MS Surface, RT 8.1
Two desktops are connected via Ethernet
Office is Dell, Windows 8.1 and serves as a file server to the portables.
Server...
access denied
connection
desktop
error 0x80070005
file server
file sharing
linksys router
media repository
microsoft surface
mobileclients
network
network security
permissions
samba
troubleshooting
windows 8.1
windows update
windows vista
workgroup