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Home networking query
Hey TF-tech gurus,
I wanted to bounce some ideas around regarding some home networking. I'm fairly savvy when dealing with/troubleshooting network issues but I haven't set anything up personally and need some guidance.
So here's the situation, I have:
1x PC (with XP and W7)
1x laptop (XP and OS X)
Wireless N router
(and in the future might pick up a HTPC)
The goal: I would like to be able to share files amongst the computers at home. (If there was a way to access my files online from outside that would be super) Likely nothing major..just simple things like being able to share printers, stream or transfer movie files from one computer to another.
Solution? I'm not sure what's my best plan of action? For my simple usage I was considering simply getting a NAS external drive that I could format as MS-FAT for cross-platform sharing and that would probably be easy to access from all my computers no?
I appreciate any thoughts or comments.
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