shared folders

Here's the scenario: I have two PC's with Windows 7. They're both members of the same HomeGroup. They can see and access each others libraries through HomeGroup sharing. All that is fine, but there something specific I want to achieve. I want to share a standard folder to my HomeGroup. Now...

I have a Xp Sp3 PC which has shared folders and serves videos to Vista media centre connected to the router. The problem started suddenly. List of videos loads quickly in media centre and then I go and click the video and choose video to play. This is where it takes up to 3-6 minutes to start...

Hi guys, Id be so thankful if anyone can help me with this issue because I am stumped. From my ISP I have a Netgear DG834GUv5 DSL Wifi router connecting: My desktop (wired) Win7 32 My lappy (wireless) Win7 64 My housemates 2 mac lappys (wireless) My laptop and desktop are connected via...

Hello, I am using a software that has a viewer program that will show files by retrieving a shared folder over the network. However when ever I try to use the viewer I get prompted for a "Network Username and Password." Here is my set up. Set up is - System A (viewer) PC Connected via...

Hi. Setup: 1. Windows 7 Home Prem - (PC-A) This is my new machine 2. Windows XP Pro SP2 - (PC-B) This is my old machine which will end up being my server 3. Windows XP Pro SP3 - (PC-C) This is my netbook All three are connected wirelessly to a Wifi router. I'm quiet new to...

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I have four machines: A MacBook Pro, a desktop running Ubuntu and two desktops running Windows 7 64bit. To make it easier in describing the issue I am having, let's call my Windows 7 desktops as PC-A and PC-B. I have shared folders in both PC-A and PC-B that are accessible from all machines and...

Hi, Im a bit of a newbie on this forum, and an IT Admin at that (shock horror!) So, i dont spend too much time worrying about desktops. What i would like to know from the Win7 boffins is: Can Windows 7 users configure\make use of the new MS Server 2008 R2 feature File Classification...

In Windows 7 (home premium) I can't figure out how to share a folder with one computer on the network (as opposed to all the computers or the entire homegroup. First, I've turned off password protected sharing. When I try to share with specific people all I get in the local computer users...

ok so we have 2 laptops, both win 7, and a pc that has vista. our computer can see all the shared folders and access them, but our laptops cannot access our vista computer. It can see it, but when you click on it we get an error saying windows can't access\\(pc name)pc. We have tried so many...

Hello all! I was hoping for a little bit of help with this problem. I've Googled for the last 45 minutes, tried a bunch of solutions, and searched this very forum, to no avail. I'm trying to share a folder on my computer (N:\TV, where N is an internal hard disk) on my local area network. Two...

Hi, I've done something stupid. In the folder "shared" so had "all" access. But what are "all"? I have passwords on my router. But in "Network" I see other individuals I do not recognize, and can access these folders (in some), but many of the required password (looked at this when I...

Hi, I have a NAS (synology) and windows 7 computers. I can acces in share folder in my Filestation, all is fine. The BIG problem is : i can not execute .bat file on this share folder. It is a big problem. If i create a share folder on a Windows 7, .bat files work. On the Filestation : doesn't...

Hi, This is probably simple enough, but I've Googled the topic to death with little success. I'm sharing a few folders between two computers (both Windows 7) on my home network. The folders are each set to be shared with "Everyone." Let's call the two computers/users Jack and Jill. What I'd...

Ok, so I recently purchased a new desktop with Windows 7 Home Premium. At home I have the desktop, an internet router/gateway combo from my ISP, an XBOX360 wired to the router, as is the Desktop, a Samsung UN55C7000 LED TV with wireless connection and a Samsung BD-P3600 Blu-ray player that I do...

I am pulling my hair out trying to get a few things sorted out with my home setup. I have media pc running windows 7 ultimate. But trying to stream AVI files over Cat6 cable to my local network to my media player [zensonic/ziova z500] just doesnt work, I can see the folders but not the...

First off, thanks for looking in here... I've searched everywhere, been at it forever it seems, and I'm just stumped. I bought a new PC to replace and older PC. Trying to get everything transferred to new PC(NPC) from old PC(OPC), going at it via FTP. Now for the problem. I've setup a...

Hi I have managed to get my Zensonics z500 media player to show me the media folders on my windows 7 machine, in the video library, but the files have no contents. If the original file on the PC had an AVI movie that file showing on the z500 is empty. It originally worked fine in the old XP pc...

I currently have a desktop computer running windows 7 and a lapptop running Mac OS X 10.5.8. My wifi router is Tenda 311R b/g/n 150 Mb/s. Can you show me the way to setup a wireless lan? I tried to set the shared folder on windows7 but, how to say it .... both my desktop and lapptop (running...

I used to be able to access the shared folders of my Windows XP computer from my Windows 7 laptop, but not anymore. Printing also stopped working. The computers are connected through Powerline networking (running through the power cables). I can see the other computer in the Windows 7 explorer...