linking 2 computers with windows 7 help

[morcar]

I got my netbook which is using wireless and my main pc which is using wired for the internet. I wanted to link them up through the router so i could access files.

Now I dont have the IPv6 connection so I cant use the homegroup (at least thats what I read anyway) so how can I access files from my main PC to the netbook.

thanks

 

[ShambleS1980]

if they are both on 7 you can still use home group.
(set the home group up on 1 and you will get a password. use that to join the home group with the other system)

but you can also share files any way.

be on the same workgroup (mshome or soething)
and then right click the file or folder to share
chose share with.
Specific people.
then add the user name "everyone"
set the read write premissions for that

also in your network and sharing center.
You can click change advanced sharing settings
and you can turn off password protected sharing..

this should let even windows xp systems on your network be able to access files.

there are more secure ways of doing it though..
if you have a user account "jimmy" on the laptop and a user account "smith" on the pc (whch are the main used accounts for the respective system) then you can add those accounts to the other system. "jimmy gets added to the pc, and smith added to the laptop" with the same password set for them as it is on the original system they connected on.

in that instance you can enable password protected sharing. and allow windows to manage accounts.
also for shareing you would add "jimmy" or "smith" repectivly to the sahere with dialouge. instead of "everyone"

I think all that is right been a while since i set up my sharing.

but i have 2 windows 7 systems, (one x64, the other x32) a windows xp laptop, a windows 7 laptop, and an xbox all on the network able to view and access files. (xbox only accesses files does not share any)

P.s

i find it works better when the router is set to dhcp rather than manually asigning an ip to each system. when i manualy asign an ip i tend to get unidentified network which peeves me off because i prefer manually asigning as i do a bit of ftp transfers so i like to know which system is 2 3 4 5 6and so on.. (i dont use 1 because i like to save that for routers or ics systems, as 1 seems to be a nice ip address for windows to access the internet from)

 

[soeter04]

Can't add more than your average google-found tutorial to this discussion, but i'll give you one tip: make sure the dates and times on both machines are not too far off!

 

[Retrograde]

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i find it works better when the router is set to dhcp rather than manually asigning an ip to each system. when i manualy asign an ip i tend to get unidentified network which peeves me off because i prefer manually asigning as i do a bit of ftp transfers so i like to know which system is 2 3 4 5 6and so on.. (i dont use 1 because i like to save that for routers or ics systems, as 1 seems to be a nice ip address for windows to access the internet from)

Even in most consumer routers you can set DHCP reservations;
(i.e. computer with MAC adress X always gets IP Y)

Much more convenient than static assignments imo.

 

[morcar]

thank you i got it sorted

 

[ShambleS1980]

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i find it works better when the router is set to dhcp rather than manually asigning an ip to each system. when i manualy asign an ip i tend to get unidentified network which peeves me off because i prefer manually asigning as i do a bit of ftp transfers so i like to know which system is 2 3 4 5 6and so on.. (i dont use 1 because i like to save that for routers or ics systems, as 1 seems to be a nice ip address for windows to access the internet from)

Even in most consumer routers you can set DHCP reservations;
(i.e. computer with MAC adress X always gets IP Y)

Much more convenient than static assignments imo.

i just set the lease time of the dhcp to "forever" and make note of what ip everything has and try to remember like that lol.

Aslo one of my systems is connected to 2 routers, the wiereless one is the main network with internet access. and then i have a wired router.the wired router is only used for ftp. i find its much faster transfering over a wierd network than wireless, the wired router is really usefull because i can just bring up its config page, and then see the ip addressess it asigned to the various systems.
Both of my other routers will not display a dhcp address it has assigned unless its wierless. so id have to manually check on the system. and im lazy like that.:double

 

[morcar]

would it any different if i wanted to of my computers linked up to play games like starcraft and such ?

 

[ShambleS1980]

if you can see them to share files you can link n play..
all they need is a IP address to netplay. and even if they are on diferent workgroups you should still be able to direct ip.

as for a direct lan game. im prety sure aslong as all systems are connected to the network with network access you should be fine to play