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  1. 04-07-2009 03:14 PM #1
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    I've kinda managed to set up a network between my desktop and laptop. desktop runs vista (it was that or put up with windows genuine thingy annoying me) and laptop runs XP.

    I want to watch films that are on my desktop, on my laptop in bed.

    I can see and access the whole laptop on the desktop, and i can see the whole desktop on the laptop. but i can only access the 'Public' folder on the laptop. i set everything else to 'shared' but there's some malarky about permissions that seems above my head, and when i try and open any other file via the laptop, it tells me i don't have permission and to contact an administrator (i.e. me. bah)

    So i've tried putting films in the public folder on the desktop, i can get to them, but can't open them (they play fine on the desktop) VLC player says it can't recognise the format (!?!?) and media player stalls and just says 'connecting' at the bottom. Oh yeh, i tried copy and pasting across and it's going to take nearly 2 hours to copy 700Mb.

    I appreciate i can burn stuff onto CDs/watch stuff in the living room etc., I'd just like to get this working properly.

    Any suggestions?

    thank you
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  2. 04-07-2009 03:29 PM #2
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    I have it on good advice that a certain Godfather extraordinaire shall help you out with it tomorrow.

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    haha, nice
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    You'd be better off just using a memory stick to transfer the movies.
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    If you are going to transer somethign across a network it is effectivley copying and pasting.
    As for the error with the program it might be two different versions of say IP or TCP operating so that some of the data isn't interpretted correctly.
    To really help I would have to sit down with you and try stuff out in all honesty.
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    Not sure how you made out but I just bought a DLink network storage drive and a couple of 1 terabyte drive for it. Once you set it up (way easy), any computer can get at the files on it. And it's nice knowing that my stuff is saved centrally in case one of my computers die!
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    yeah that shit is nice some routers let you hook up an external hardrive to do that, better to have a fast powered hardrive when doing this, the usb powered drives is too slow
    When it comes to pink butterflies i could give a flying fuck.
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    The Dlink DNS 323 (and most units for sale now) support Gigabit connections so I haven't had any issues with speed. My torrents dump directly to the network drive. It's pretty sweet now. And for the purposes of this thread, I consider myself a non-techie when it comes to home networks.
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