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How do I share files and folders between computers with Windows 7?
I am talking about secure file sharing with a password. I once found a guide that did just that, creating a separate user account with a password whose only purpose is another computer to login ...
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Windows 7 File Sharing
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I am now having a DNS issue for sure. When I ping ComputerName it tries to ping ComputerName.DNS suffix
But this suffix doesn't have any resolution on my network. The DNS servers are all ...
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Windows Local file system
I am running a desktop on windows and would like to access the files in a certain folders from my laptops via my local Lan network. What is the easyist way to do that?...
My desktop is Running ...
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How to access shared folders set up on Windows 7 using a Windows 8 machine?
I set up several shared drives and folders on my Win 7 machines, so that any new machine running Win 7 with the same user name and password log in can use those drives and folders.
But on Win 8, I ...
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Can Windows shares potentially be accessible from Internet?
I've set up a Windows homegroup and made some folders shared between the computers on my home network. Strangely enough, it's not the automatically generated homegroup password (which is quite hard) ...
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File and Printer Sharing will not stay on after enabling
I'm having the same problem I've seen many people post on here and elsewhere on the web, sometimes resulting in dead-ends or very obvious answers.
Mine is one of those dead ends - every time I try ...
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Why can I not access files on another computer on my network?
I have set up the workgroup all to the same word, for this I'll replace it with SUPERUSER. When I try to access files from another computer which is also on SUPERUSER, a pop up comes up and says:
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Network/Sharing solution needed for Win7 and XP-SP3
I have an unusual problem effectively connecting all of the computers in my house.
1.) Win 7 Ultimate / Dell Inspiron N4110
2.) Win 7 Home Premium / Dell Inspiron N4010
3.) Win 7 Starter / Acer ...
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How can I share files from my Windows 7 machine to my friend's Ubuntu machine?
I run a Windows 7 Pro SP1 laptop as my home machine, and my housemate runs an Ubuntu 12.04.1.05 desktop. We share a WLAN. I would like to make certain locations and files available for him to read and ...
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Windows 7 Power User on Domain cant do file shares
At my organization we are running windows 7 and all of our users are power users and are not local admins on their machines. I am running into an issue were the Developers aren't able to create any ...
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Using XP, can't access other shared folders in Win 7
I have two shared folders in Windows 7 with exactly the same sharing/security settings however I can only access one from XP e.g., FolderA. The other folder FolderB can't be seen by XP. Any ideas why?
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Move files between two windows file shares on the same server
Using Windows 7 I have a server with shared folders set up. If I open one of them and take a file and move it to a subfolder it's instant - the file is obviously only being moved on the server. The ...
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Windows 7 disable media sharing (DLNA) for individual accounts
I have a Win 7 machine with 3 user accounts on it. I stream media from this machine to my LG Smart TV using standard HomeGroup sharing.
However, the TV picks up 3 different input sources ...
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Download fails for redirected folders
I have two machines with win 7, desktop and laptop, with desktop being the "master" one, where I keep all the data. Those data are workgroup-shared to laptop, which maps them as a network drive. It is ...
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File sharing between a windows 8 Virtual machine and a windows 7 host machine in VMware workstation
I have files and portable applications on windows 7 Host Machine. How can I access this from windows 8 Virtual machine which is on VMware workstation.
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Windows 7 Administrator HomeUsers Account
I'm trying to login to my Windows 7 PC from another PC so that I can transfer files to the Windows 7 PC. I've just installed Visual Studio 2008 on my new PC, and I wan't to transfer all of my work ...
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Windows Access Control permissions
I am trying to find a way to share a folder (located in my User folder) so that others may view the files (if they know the filenames) but not list the folder contents (for e.g. like public_html).
In ...
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Sharing Windows 7 Hard drive with Windows XP Hard drive
I wish to share my hard drives between my two computers but I seem to be running along some sort of error... my windows XP Computer is picking up my "XGaming" hard drive but when clicked it says ...
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MacBook Pro suddenly unable to connect to windows shares
I have an older MBP running the latest version of Lion. Up until about two or three days ago, I had no problems connecting to my shares on my Windows computer. It is running Windows 7 Ultimate x64.
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Can no longer access shares on a Windows 7 machine from Windows XP machines
We have a network in the office that has been humming along for over a year now with this basic setup. We share files off of a Windows 7 machine. Windows 7 machines can connect to these shares just ...
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Windows 7 as file server, intermittently cuts out for XP users
I have a studio with 6 PCs connected to a Windows 7 machine (Home Premium, SP1) which acts as file server. Password protected sharing is turned off, 128 encryption is on, allow windows to manage ...
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How to share files from Mac mountain lion to windows 7?
I've been trying to share one particular folder on my imac to other windows users but having difficulty of sharing just one particular folder. I've tried to google around and the methods work only for ...
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Cannot write to windows share ntfs folder from mac
I have a windows 7 shared folder, I can connect to windows 7 using smb protocol and can mount the drive on mac. I can get files from that shared folder but how to write/paste files from my mac to ...
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Windows 7 file and printer sharing doesnt work for me
Until a few days ago I hadn't had any problems, but now I can't use file and printer sharing in Windows 7 but everyone else on the network can.
It is possible I installed some program that made a ...
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Homegroup libraries visible but can't be opened
I have 2 Windows 7 PCs in a home network. When I create a homegroup, the libraries I share are visible on the opposing machine but when I doubleclick them nothing happens - no error message, nothing ...
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Cap transfer rates on shared dirs?
I have a USB drive on my main machine that every uses and want to know if it is possible to max the amount that can be downloaded off it in terms of Mbit/s as to not slow down my connection to the ...
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Share a Portable Disk in a Homegroup
I have two Windows 7 computers in the same Homegroup and file share is working. My question is that is there any way to share all the disk? In particular, I have some portable disks and my goal is ...
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How can I make a folder/partition on one computer appear as a mass storage device to another?
Is there anyway to make a folder or a partition on a computer (Linux or Windows) act like a mass storage device to other computers or devices when connected with a Male-Male USB cable?
For example, I ...
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windows 7 sharing files on home network
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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
right click ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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Seeing Ubuntu-made files on an NTFS partition from within Windows 7
I have a dual boot system in place, Ubuntu/Windows, each on its on physical hard drive since I also have SRT active on the Windows partition.
The setup is as follows:
Disk 1:
- Partition 1: System ...
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File and Printer Sharing Port issue in Windows 7 64 bit
On a Windows 7 64 bit box, whenever I try to access a server using file share, it tries to connect to port 80 http on the place of 445. I observed that using WireShark. Telnet to 445 works.
I have ...
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Windows 7 - sharing file - slow seek time?
I do not want to copy the files. I simply have video files (.flv) on one computer and I would like another computer user to watch them without copying. Playback is fine, but seek time (as in if you ...
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Wired and wireless network file sharing
I have connected my Internet to a buffalo air station router and a swtich. Computers and Laptops on this network connect to the Internet wired and wirelessly.
I would like to share files locally on ...
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How to share folders in Windows 7 to users on other computers on the network ?
Does anyone can tell how to efficiently use sharing in Windows 7 so that for instance: Can I set up sharing on machine A (to a user on machine B) so that a user from machine B can use his own login ...
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How does a windows client (XP) access an SMB share on OS X Server (10.6 snow leopard)?
I work in a small office in which the server and most of the work stations run Mac OS X 10.6. We are using OS X Server 10.6 for file sharing. I am not an official IT guy, but there is no one else to ...
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Can't see logical Windows NTFS partition in OS X
I have installed Mac OS X in my MacBook Pro. I have installed Windows 7 on the same machine but by creating a separate partition.
Is there any way I can access files (like mp3 files or photos, ...
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How can saved file on XP Home be accessible from WIndows 7 Home
A client is using XP Home as their "MAIN" computer while the other two compters in her office are Windows 7 Home Premium.
The main document location in on the MAIN computer and shared with full ...
