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Fattierob
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Joined: April 25, 2003
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|  Posted: 2006-09-17 10:48
Yes yes. I seem to ask these alot around here. maybe if Faustus started to charge money for the communitys ability to help people with their internet problems...
anyway, here is my predicement: I wish to share files between two computers. Yes, I know, shocking.
here's how the computers are set up:
My computer is hooked up by ethernet to a router. this router is wireless. the router is hooked up to my modem, which in turn is hooked up to a series of tubes.
My brothers computer is wirelessly hooked up to the router.
Is their anyway I can share files between these two computers with my current set up? thanks.
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Joined: March 22, 2006
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From: Philly
| Posted: 2006-09-17 12:46
It should be very easy to do already - right click the folder the files are in & goto Sharing & Security - then click on the Sharing tab - it should give you instructions on how to share. Some folders you can share outright by clicking a box, some have to be dragged into the My Shared Folders file under My Computer.
I think.... 
Option B) Install Kazaa on both computers & hope for the best 
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Joined: March 03, 2004
Posts: 2673
| Posted: 2006-09-17 15:37
USB flashdrive thing ftw if nothing else works.
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Fattierob
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| Posted: 2006-09-17 19:13
I did that share thing, it doesn't work.
for whatever reason, I cannot ping my brothers computer.....this is probably the source of the problem (The ROuters internaL firewall blocks PINGS, I turned it off, still didn't work)..
edit: I Can now ping. However, I still canot transfer files. #($*#(
[ This Message was edited by: Fattierob (x2 80cm 75 cal) on 2006-09-17 20:09 ]
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| Posted: 2006-09-17 21:04
Not sure if this will help but I'm having a similar problem, I have the same type of set up (wireless router, all comps connected to the internet via that wifi)
This type of set up is not the same as a computer network, that much I know, therefore you can't (as far as I know) share files over it without setting up an actual network
You don't want to be asking me about setting up a network though, last time I tried all the comps in our house ended up with no internet for about half an hour before I fixed it
All I can tell you is that you need to find some way to set up a wireless network in addition to your wireless internet connection...hope that's somewhat helpful
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