I have just recently setup a wireless connection between my laptop and PC using WIFI, ad-hoc (peer-to-peer). After a long time i managed to get the connection up and stable, but still havent managed to get access to my "host" computers HDD, so how do i do it? I need to get access to my D: drive to copy files to my new laptop.
Yeah i have File and printer sharing on as well, i just dont know where to go to find D: from my laptop.. EDIT: Just mapped my drive, shows up in My Computer as a network drive (M now i just need to know how to connect to it.
Share the entire drive. If you mapped to it your 1/2 way there. Share all the folders in it. Microsoft has always been a pain with this. Try just one folder for starts. I forgot the command to sync the local network so it may take a minute of two by itself. Hope you get it.
I have the whole partition shared with full network privileges. What i need would be that command to sync them, no matter what i can only see whatever computer im on in my network, other Computer(s) wont show up. Basically i just need anyone who has setup their own network to guide me through accessing my files.
Well when I want to transfer data between my laptop or another computer in a local area connection I run the connection setup wizard. It in turn makes a floppy that you install on the sub computers (only needed once)then I just share everything and it shows up. Like I said microsoft is a pain but I guess in this case it's not a bad idea so others can't get to your files. It can be a little trickey and there is that delay before the computers are in sync but they can do it themselfs. Sometimes it takes 15 minutes for a shared computer to show up. I think all computers have to have admin rights (not sure about that) because im the only one to use any of them so they are all admin logons and I never played with other user rights.
dunno how but i worked it out, Trend Micro Anti-spyware said something had stuffed up my network config so i let it fix it, that and i had the wrong TCP/IP address on one computer was a 0 not a 1. Nearly straight away it appeared on both machines, but it only runs on 11mpbs(802.11b) instead of 54mbps(going to find out how to change) so transferring 11+ gb of data is going to take nearly 4hrs.
Check your NIC settings. It's under Networks->Right-click your connection->Properties->Configure Make sure it's set for 54 mbps (assuming the NIC or WIFI adapter can really do that). Then repeat for the other machine(s). It might be easier, if you can physically do it, to connect Ethernet cables to the router and set the NIC to 100 mbps full-duplex (although it almost certainly will default to that, esp. if set to Auto) on each machine. Then you'll get full-house 100mpbs.
cant find any setting to "force" 802.11g only options i could find were either b or b/g. Both my WIFI devices support both b and g, im not using a router or anything so I cant "connect Ethernet cables to the router and set the NIC to 100 mbps full-duplex".
