Networking Home Computers

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I've got 3 computers sharing a DSL signal from a syslink hub.

Is there a way that I can have two of them "seeing" each other and sharing files?
Is this a bad thing if one of them is my DAW?

I basically just want to be able to access downloaded Mp3 files from my upstairs computer.
 
Yes, I have this working with a simple Linksys hub. They were also sharing DSL until I switched to Cable, and now I need a router to have them use cable at the same time. Sharing still works though.

You need to set up file and print sharing on your computer. There are different ways to do this, depending on your OS, but they are all easy. Once you select a drive/files that you want to share, they should come up in windows explorer as additional files, below the c/d drives etc.

I had some difficulty in getting my laptop to 'see' my desk top, and to 'see' my laptop i need to go to start/run and type in the name of the laptop. It them comes up in a separate window. It isn't integrated into explorer. But, it works, and if one computer can see the other, then you can still share files both ways.

I record using my laptop and when I am running low on space, or simply want to back up, this is soooo easy. No more making CD-Rs and then chucking them.

Don't know if it would impact the DAW performance, but it is very easy to enable/disable, so no worries.
 
Yeah, shouldn't be any different than networking anything else. Just need a simple, cheap hub (make sure is 100 base, not locked at 10) and set up your network settings on each machine that needs to be seen. Then set up your sahres and that should be it :)
 
Getuhgrip - setting up a home network is not too hard. But I have seen situations in the past where even if the network is working, even if games could see each other, even if you can find the other PCs by using "Find Computer", the other PCs still refuse to show up in Network Neighborhood. Its just a matter of user settings but there are quite a few of them...

I could explain it but I ran accross a recent article that did a real good job of doing this. Although it is about XP, it pretty much applies to earlier versions of Windows as well. Its from XP News, scroll down to the "Hints" section and you will find it.

http://www.winxpnews.com/index.cfm?id=37
 
"it isnt too hard" - says everyone...
"unless you're the unlucky one" - says me...haha


spend a day or 2 on it though, and you'll get it.
its a pain in the ass when you got 2 diff. windows' too...
for example - ME and XP. my original generic card would only run at 10 over the network, yet still download at very fast speeds. however, when i put in my new card (which would run fast all the time) - it decided to not network with my computer anymore. i couldn't "see" it, as its called.

eventually, after installing basically every file sharing protocall that there is, i got a pair that worked..lol - tcp/ip, netbios or whatever that is called (netbeus maybe?), and some ipx thing as well - those 3 finally did it. took me a few days, and lots of hair.
 
aaah, thank's for the link RWhite... I found something interesting there...
 
Awhile back I setup my home network to share a modem using Win98SE's Internet Connection Sharing and it was pretty easy. Just make sure your network cards and cables work properly because they can be pretty flakey.
 
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