I know the Title is rather general but what I need is help in connecting two computers to each other with no limitations.
Gear we have:
I have a computer in my office that runs all the time and is where I store my photos and family videos. I have a HTPC in the living room that runs periodically when we want to surf the web or watch movies. I store our movies on the HTPC. Both computers are running Windows 7 64-bit and are hard wire connected through a Netgear gigabit switch, which then connects to the internet through a router. Each computer has a main account that I use and a guest account the kids use. The kids don't know the password to the main account.
What I want to do:
I want to be able to have full read/write capability from one computer to the other for the password protected accounts.
What I've tried:
I have tried the homegroup route but found that I could only access specific folders. I've also burrowed into the other computer using the Netword portion of windows explorer...but I can only view files and can't edit/add/delete them.
I realize this is a common request and am not asking for someone to go through all the steps here. But can someone point me to a good guide that would cover my type of request? I'm a complete newbie to networking but don't mind following a guide and digging a bit deeper to get the functionality I want. Homegroups seemed too limited. I've searched and found multiple ways to network...but many discuss homegroups. So I thought I'd ask here for a better recommendation. A good example of the poor guides I ran into is at http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/homenetworking/a/homenetguide.htm. Just figuring out how to read through those directions is difficult since it jumps around so much.
At one point in the past a friend who knows networking came over and was able to temporarily get the two computers to see each other and have full read/write capability...but once I restarted my HTPC the connection was lost. I know he went into the user settings and attempted to give both computers full access. Not sure why it quit working.
Thank you
Gear we have:
I have a computer in my office that runs all the time and is where I store my photos and family videos. I have a HTPC in the living room that runs periodically when we want to surf the web or watch movies. I store our movies on the HTPC. Both computers are running Windows 7 64-bit and are hard wire connected through a Netgear gigabit switch, which then connects to the internet through a router. Each computer has a main account that I use and a guest account the kids use. The kids don't know the password to the main account.
What I want to do:
I want to be able to have full read/write capability from one computer to the other for the password protected accounts.
What I've tried:
I have tried the homegroup route but found that I could only access specific folders. I've also burrowed into the other computer using the Netword portion of windows explorer...but I can only view files and can't edit/add/delete them.
I realize this is a common request and am not asking for someone to go through all the steps here. But can someone point me to a good guide that would cover my type of request? I'm a complete newbie to networking but don't mind following a guide and digging a bit deeper to get the functionality I want. Homegroups seemed too limited. I've searched and found multiple ways to network...but many discuss homegroups. So I thought I'd ask here for a better recommendation. A good example of the poor guides I ran into is at http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/homenetworking/a/homenetguide.htm. Just figuring out how to read through those directions is difficult since it jumps around so much.
At one point in the past a friend who knows networking came over and was able to temporarily get the two computers to see each other and have full read/write capability...but once I restarted my HTPC the connection was lost. I know he went into the user settings and attempted to give both computers full access. Not sure why it quit working.
Thank you
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