Ka Winter wrote:
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>>>>I'm migrating from a desktop to a new notebook
>>>>
>>>>
>>computer,and I want to copy mucho files from one to
>>another.
>>
>>
>>>>What's the easiest way to share ALL files on the
>>>>
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>>desktop, so
>>
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>>>>I can access everything on it via a local network.
>>>>Using windoze expee on both.
>>>>
>>>>
>
>Hopefully it is XP Pro because that makes life easier
>but if you go into the control panel and into
>networking it will allow you to right click and choose
>what folders to share which you can even do with the
>whole C drive. Do that on both machines, connect the
>nics via your router or however and reboot them both.
>They will probably happily see each other and you can
>drag files back and forth. They may/will probably ask
>you to log in, just use your XP login. When things
>get tricky is when it is XP home set up for single
>user with no login password established.
>
>In that case, if you have a Linux machine on the
>network you can ftp into it and use it to upload files
>from one WeenyXP machine and then ftp in from the
>other and download them. Or burning cd's, or using a
>little ram stick will also work. There are also
>programs you can buy to run on your Windoze machines
>that allow you to synchronize documents from a desktop
>to a laptop.
>
>Cassandra
>
>
When I select C: > Sharing and Security, then check the box
"Share this folder on the network", expee pro shares only the
root folder, methinks?. I know that it doesn't cause *all* sub-
folders of C: to be shared. Is this because I'm not logged in
as admin?
Dave
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