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jame001   11-14-2009 at 02:45:36 PM

Here is the situation:

I have two dozen of PCs connected by switch and a router connected from the switch. So, i use my Laptop to connect (Wireless) through the router to the internet.

And here is the question:

Is that possible to share my files on my Laptop with the rest of PC using the router?

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drj_the_knife   11-17-2009 at 02:39:35 AM

I am sure that you have probably already tried this but am using a similar network. You can either share your "C:\" drive or create a new folder that you want the other people to be able to access and map it to a drive.
I use "N:\", (standing for network), and inside network I always have a folder called "install", for obvious reasons. All of my terminals have static IP's, they all connect to my wireless laptop no worries.
Have a good one mate

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ntadmin101   11-17-2009 at 05:51:07 PM

jame001 wrote :

Here is the situation:

I have two dozen of PCs connected by switch and a router connected from the switch. So, i use my Laptop to connect (Wireless) through the router to the internet.

And here is the question:

Is that possible to share my files on my Laptop with the rest of PC using the router?




Yes it is. How you do this depends on how you're machines are setup. Are you in a workgroup or domain? Please don't share the root of your laptop's hard drive. You will be 0wn3d in a nano-second on some public wireless system. Do other people use those 12 machines? If you must share files with those machines, I would create and share one folder exclusively and deposite files in ot for the other machines to access.

Tell me what you want to do with this and I can suggest a safe solution for you.

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