Two computer wired network, need some help

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

My brother has a upstairs office computer with all of his main files and audio programs (Cubase, Cakewalk, Acid etc...) and a "shell" computer downstairs in the band room that he is trying to use as a client....he is connected and can use remote desktop to access the other but has to start Cubase upstairs and then he has no audio replay downstairs....

He need s a solution to be able to run the programs downstairs using the files upstairs (standard server/client I assume). He might even be able to use a shared folder if I knew how to tell him how to set that up..


Please give me a couple good options assuming I have any resources you can name (except networking experience)

Thanks.-Rob

 

[Devistater]

You may be able to share the folders on the network, and then run cubase on what you call the "shell" computer but running off the files from the upstairs one. Some programs work that way, others dont. Give it a try, share the folders, then on the "shell" computer browse to the folder with cubase or whatever and double click the file to run the program. See what happens.

Or you could manually run audio cables from upstairs to downstairs.

The "server/client" model you are talking about generally has to be supported by the software. For instance, you can run a webserver that serves webpages to clients.

There are some remote desktop type stuff that support audio if you want to try that. But the problem is they are rather laggy and not very good quality. Probably not the thing if you are into music studio stuff.

Maybe you should give us a little more detail on what you need to do? Are both computers equally capable of running the sofware? Do you just need to have two copies of the software and maybe want a single shared place for all your data files?

 

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

Yup, both computers are able to run the software and that's the thing he was going to try next, I think sharing some folders or maybe I could make him a partition to share would be the best solution.

I know I could figure it out given time but that is the thing I have the least of (3 kids and too much work)

 

[Devistater]

Yeah if you can run copies on each computer and have a "shared" data folder or data drive or data partition, that would be the easiest and best. Because running the software remotely is going to introduce lag, and with audio I always see people going on about these ASIO soundcard drivers which have ZERO ms of lag, so even though I dont know much about audio stuff, I know that that is an important element if you are recording and stuff.

 

[ktwebb]

Click start, then Help and Support. Keyword File and Printer sharing. The result should match that keyword search. Seems like it is down the list for some reason. Anyway, run through those steps or google windows file sharing and add XP. Assuming you are using XP. MANY walkthroughs and tutorials on this, then come back here if you run into trouble, giving specific details of what you've done and what errors your getting.

 

[dnoyeb]

typically if you turno n security on that shared folder, the login name will have to be one that is an actual account on the folder that is sharing the resource. Especially if this is windows XP. Win2K would allow you to use a different name for 1 particular folder, but I dont think XP does.

 

[ktwebb]

Um. hmmm? Turn on security? Your comment about win2k is false. User level security is just that. You need an account on the "server" box that your logging onto on locally or you can use Run As. That or enable the guest account. Saving that you need the account.