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warrrreagl · 07-29-2007, 08:33 AM

Why can't anybody tell me how to network our two home computers? Grancey has a tower computer in the study that is wired to the wireless router. I have a work laptop that I bring home that conects to the internet through the same wireless router. We also have Tivo that connects through that router.

Grancey wants to access a folder on my laptop that is basically all the recovered files from her old laptop that died. It's 5 gigs of stuff so we can't put it on a flash drive. Why can't she access my laptop through the wireless router? Why can't I find a set of instructions somewhere that says, "right click on this, type this, click OK and you're done?" Every website I've looked at for help gives me the entire history of networking but doesn't give me anything worth a damn in actual help. I have no idea what the terminology for all these things mean. I just want to share one thing from one computer to another. I tried something where I was configuring something and I had to give my laptop a group name or something and I got locked out of my laptop as a result and had to sheepishly take it into my IS guy the next morning so he could get me logged back in to my work computer.

How hard can this be?

07-29-2007, 08:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	Home networking for dummies Why can't anybody tell me how to network our two home computers? Grancey has a tower computer in the study that is wired to the wireless router. I have a work laptop that I bring home that conects to the internet through the same wireless router. We also have Tivo that connects through that router. Grancey wants to access a folder on my laptop that is basically all the recovered files from her old laptop that died. It's 5 gigs of stuff so we can't put it on a flash drive. Why can't she access my laptop through the wireless router? Why can't I find a set of instructions somewhere that says, "right click on this, type this, click OK and you're done?" Every website I've looked at for help gives me the entire history of networking but doesn't give me anything worth a damn in actual help. I have no idea what the terminology for all these things mean. I just want to share one thing from one computer to another. I tried something where I was configuring something and I had to give my laptop a group name or something and I got locked out of my laptop as a result and had to sheepishly take it into my IS guy the next morning so he could get me logged back in to my work computer. How hard can this be? __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed.