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Workgroup connection: You may not have permission
I have two Windows XP computers connected through an Ad-Hoc network, computer A creates the network and B connects to it. Both computers are on the Mshome network and have file and printer sharing ...
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System Error 5 & Event 5140 Failure when connecting to C$ on Win 7 system
When trying to access the C$ share on a Windows 7 system, I get the following error:
System error 5 has occurred.
Access is denied.
Upon checking the log on the target system, I see a successful ...
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windows 7 sharing files on home network
Home network
Windows 7 on a laptop
I am trying to share a folders in my personal account on a laptop I have from work. My account has administrator privileges.
create folder on desktop
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Shared subfolder not accessible over network unless parent folder is also Shared
I've got a Media folder with a Music subfolder:
Server\Media\Music
If I share Music, it's not accessible over the network ( via \server\media\music )
If I also Share Media, then Music is accessible.
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Versioning file server
Looking for a virtual filesystem server (like ftp or sshd or NFS, samba) with the following features:
open-source
cross platform server (Linux/Windows/OSX)
linear file versioning (don't need to have ...
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Virtual machine sharing setup with Windows host and *nix guest that allows symlinks?
I'm using VirtualBox (and have tried VMWare) on a Windows 7 host with an Ubuntu server guest. I've set up folder sharing in VirtualBox so that my Ubuntu server home dir is a mount of my Windows 7 home ...
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How to share my localhost over the internet?
I really want to share my localhost over the internet to show my friends the progress of the website we're working on, so that I don't need to upload it to the public server each time I make a change.
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Self hosted dropbox [closed]
Does anyone know of a file sharing/syncing software that works like dropbox but is self hosted? It could be centralized with a live server that controls everything or decentralized.
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Encrypted Windows 7 & Linux Advice Wanted
I would like to set up my laptop to dual boot Arch Linux and Windows 7 with file sharing and encryption. Just wanted some advice on going about this because I have not dealt with encryption nor file ...
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Self-hosted repository for large files (X-platform)
I'm looking for something well suited to syncing folders full of large media (eg photos, music) across several machines, ideally with revisions. I'm using SparkleShare for text and other small files, ...
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File sharing between Windows 7 Ultimate PCs
I've got two computers, a desktop and a laptop, both running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. The desktop is wired to the router, the laptop is wireless. On the desktop there are two user accounts, my own and ...
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Cannot set up Windows 7 HomeGroup - “An error occurred”
Naive as I was, I convinced my grandparents to replace their XP machines with new Windows 7 computers, since HomeGroups would relief all of their sharing pains.
Was I wrong... Ever since I've been ...
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Sharing Files on a home network
Is it possible for me to actually "share" a data file (Quicken) between two Windows 7 computers on my home network?
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Use windows' SMB to share folder over the internet?
I wonder if there are any program that can share a folder over the internet using smb? I know that windows has smb file sharing, but it only works on LAN.
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How to see between windows 7 professional and enterprise machines?
I've got a desktop system running Windows 7 Professional and a laptop running windows 7 Enterprise in a domain-joined computer and I need to copy around 50 GB of files from the Enterprise machine to ...
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What is the best way to organise media sharing amongst multiple devices on a home network?
I have a home network consisting of the following devices:
Windows 2000 Server - for file sharing
Asus RT-N56U Router - supports USB external HDD
Synology DiskStation DS212j - NAS - ordered but ...
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VPN connects, yet cannot see computer, or file shares
I have setup box at my home office w/ Windows Server 2008 R2, I have setup a VPN and I have multiple computers connected to it. I have setup a couple of file shares, and have given the users access to ...
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Alternative Windows Offline Files + Windows Backup + Previous Version Setup
Currently our documents are all hosted in a Windows 7 box. Users can access the files using Windows share and the documents are available offline (windows 7 feature). The documents are being backed up ...
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OS X Can't Access Netatalk Shares
In my home network, I have a server running Ubuntu 10.4, configured to share files to my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) with Netatalk and Avahi. It was working like a charm until one day it ...
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Windows 7 Share
My windows 7 shares have stopped working :( I can connect to the shares by IP address, ie. \192.168.1.100 . But I can't connect via Netbios name. And my media devices no longer see the Windows 7 ...
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How to create a Windows 7 fileshare that requires NO authentication
This almost seems like a silly question, and yet I can't find the combination to keep the safe open.
I am trying to create a fileshare on a Windows 7 Pro workstation. I want NO authentication ...
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How do I identify sharing permissions on a file?
In my home network all my computers are in a single homegroup. When I share a folder with the sharing context menu shown below, if I use Windows Explorer the status bar at the bottom of the window ...
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How can i get direct link from Box.net?
My company is using box.net . But we are unable to use for sending direct download link. There is an option, for direct linking aka hot linking. But it only leads to a page where user need to click ...
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How can I make multiple physical hard drives appear as a single partition?
I'm writing a basic media server where people can upload/download my content. I have 8 2TB hard drives where I would like to store their uploaded files. Problem is navigating a file system that I want ...
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Web service for sharing photo/videos from an event for a private group [closed]
Following a hell of a weekend at a private live roleplay, we're looking to share the photos and video. Several present either have not yet given permission to share, or expressly don't want their ...
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File store in mixed network
Technically what is the best option for a central file store in a Windows/MAC/Linux network?
Experiences and views welcome too.
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Mac Can't Connect to Windows Share [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Mac OS X cannot connect to Windows 7 machine
Mac OS X 10.7.3
Windows 7
I checked the Windows firewall and ensured file sharing protocol is allowed. I can access ...
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Ubuntu - Windows file sharing
Scenario:
I have a folder on Ubuntu which I want to share over a network (LAN). This folder has many sub-folders and lots of files (~10k). The client is running on Windows Xp. This client will ...
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Fastest way to share files between two Windows PC (through WAN)
What I used back then is Cygwin with SSH installed. And then I connected with FileZilla or WinSCP.
However, this could not copy some of the files, and it is a bit of a hassle to set it up. (And ...
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Outlook running as different windows user
Just encountered a user who in Outlook runs as a different profile abcd01 rather than dcba02.
This causes her attatched file to misbehave as user abcd01 is not allowed to touch dcba02.
Is there a way ...
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Is Windows simple file sharing safe?
Windows (in this case XP) allows me to simply "share a folder" via its SMB protocol, and I can access it via Linux quite nicely (with Samba), no questions asked.
That's what bothers me, it just does ...
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SSHFS files from one server to another
I am trying to find the most secure way to transfer files from one server to another.
I have the following architecture:
Currently I am using the main user salamis in order to mount the ...
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Windows stops copying files after a few folders
I'm trying to copy a folder of mine to my other machine. The other machine got a folder shared. I have read/write access, and can copy files. Sometimes. Sometimes not. For some reason it just stops ...
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How to fix “Client for Microsoft Networks” and “File and Printer Sharing For Microsoft Networks” via command line?
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System error 1060 has occurred.
The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
What service doesn't exist?
Does "Client for Microsoft Networks" and "File and ...
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Windows network share on linux server without samba
I want to mount shared folders from my linux server on the network to appear like normal drives in Windows.
The server has a private network on one side and a public network (which happens to give me ...
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Windows 7 account folder sharing on server
Okay, I'll be totally honest, I was at school on the PCs (that run Windows 7) and I was looking for an installer for some software that school uses as there are quite a few security exploits and back ...
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Is it possible to allow users to create files/folders and prevent deleting folders?
I have a Windows 7 computer that has several users. I have a parent folder that is shared with the users. I want certain users to be able to create files/folders within this parent folder. However, I ...
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Sharing and security missing in Windows XP
"Sharing and Security" is missing from my XP Laptop ..
according to the topic at link above, i would like to ask you about this problem. I already check the "use simple file sharing" as ...
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Using OpenDNS screws network
How are you supposed to use a home network when using OpenDNS? If you set it as your DNS on the router it hijacks even Windows file sharing traffic so you can see computers on the network but when you ...
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Not able to send files with the new file sharing system of uTorrent
I'm trying to send my friend a .torrent with a lot of files from my PC. I made the torrent, but when I send her the link, this pops up:
Source computer not turned on! This will not work unless the ...
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Basic linux based fileserver for home use, what file sharing protocol to use to serve Linux, MacOS and Windows filesharing clients?
I got an aging Gentoo Linux laptop which I am about to transform into a fileserver for our home users (to view our family photos, films etc). Clients to support will be Linux, MacOS and Windows.
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How do I share folders between Windows XP and Windows 7 machines?
I just bought a new Windows 7 machine with Windows 7 Home Edition. I already have Windows XP Professional SP2 machine.
I want to share folders and files between these two machines. They are ...
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“Simple File Sharing” turning off seamlessly
"Simple File Sharing" needs to be turned off on this WinXP Pro machine. But it needs to be seamless, so that clients connected to it do not encounter errors/disconnects or permission issues.
The ...
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Windows 7 to XP logon issues
I just got a new computer with Win7. I have other computers with XP.
Most of the computers have file and print sharing turned on and guest account active. On these computers, I can access shared ...
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Samsung Allshare refreshing player list issue
I have a laptop, a Samsung TV which supports DLNA - Allshare (via LAN connection)on my network. (Note: Allshare is for sharing multimedia files, controlling Samsung TVs via network, ... etc)
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Is there a way to make Dropbox public folders read-only?
I basically want to share a folder in Dropbox but I don't want that others have read-write access. How to achieve that?
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Windows XP: resetting sharing permissions for a file to those of the directory it is contained in
Followup question for my previous one:
So I have a directory \etc\install\foo that allows file sharing.
I have a file NEW.zip from an unshared location that I moved into \etc\install\foo, and ...
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Windows XP local network sharing: 1GB .zip file is blocked; seeing “Access Denied” on copy?
I have two computers on our local network both running Windows XP. My main computer has local network sharing setup for \etc\install.
I have a folder with two 1GB .zip files, one of which I've had ...
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“is not accessible you might not have permission” message when accessing a password protected share folder
I'm sharing a password protected folder from my Windows 7, but the other computer which is using Windows Vista is unable to access this folder. This Vista can access my other non password protected ...
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Is there a high-performance local area “file sharing” protocol?
It seems to me that most network "file sharing" protocols are one or more of old, slow, and insecure. The most used protocols seem to be SMB, NFS, and WebDAV.
I'm sitting here, looking at iTunes ...
