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    New F8SV Arrived trying to network to old laptop to retrive files

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by 8rocks, Feb 4, 2008.

  1. 8rocks

    8rocks Notebook Consultant

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    I just received my nice new F8SV and am trying to network it with a T22 on the wired part of ny network. This should work and I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I have shared the T22 but for some reason the F8 will not see it as a avalible resource on the network. Anyone have any ideas? I am doing a restore back to factory settings (type-o-ed my name, duh) But I have about 8GB of songs from my cd collection I would really rather not have to reload one at a time.
     
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    I always found Windows normal shares to be difficult to use, not the least because of the more and more paranoid security settings (not that they're not useful).

    What I usually do is make sure the firewall on the source machine allows connections from the destination machine, then I connect with an Admin share. (if for instance the source machine IP is 172.0.0.27 then the D: partition will be \\172.0.0.27\D$). I just type this address in Total Commander or Windows Explorer on the destination machine, enter the source machine Admin password, and then I can do whatever I want on that partition.
     
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