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My laptops hard drive is almost full but I have a old PC behind me doing nothing holding three hard drives. It's has windows 7 installed on one and Linux mint on the other. My laptop is running windows 7. Is there a free way that I can use my desktop PC as some sort of storage device that I can easily access from my laptop while in my home? Something like what my college has where I can go to My Computer and access a network drive that my work is saved on. Preferably I don't want to use HomeGroup as I've had trouble joining the already created HomeGroup from another device. |
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I don't understand why people put themselves through this network crap. Just install FileZilla Server on the drive and make an account for it. If you don't know how to I'd be glad to help. If the networking doesn't work this was going to be my next option. Just would rather use windows explorer to navigate files ect. instead of FileZilla. I am glad you said that. Windows Explorer can be used as an FTP client, type ftp:// username (AT) domain . com in the bar at the top and it will prompt you for a password and sign you in, and browse as if it was on your C drive. All you need to worry about is if you have a dynamic Ip the Dynamic DNS process through no-ip.com oo okay, care to explain the whole FileZilla thing then? :) Find your ip address through typing 'ipconfig' in command prompt. If your IP starts with "192.168" then you have a dynamic Ip and I would be more than happy to help you set up Dynamic DNS, which basically makes a domain name out of your dynamic IP for free. i have a dynamic ip. Why do i need to set up dynamic DNS? :/ Simply because you have a personal residential internet plan. I have a business plan, therefore I have a "Static" IP Address and it is 76.116.224.67. If you need help using http://no-ip.com let me know. @Cameron, you might want to edit that IP Address outta there. Trust me, there's not much they can do with it except know what state I live in, which is already listed in the ICANN Whois database. Unless you run a server, the 'scary' thing about giving your IP out is a myth if you're not stupid. A Web server, not an FTP or mail server to get that across. Did you just call me stupid? I'll ignore that. Dude, I checked that up on Who.is, and it's about ~10 miles from where you say you live. If someone more experienced looked it up, they would figure out where you live at. When I said "stupid" I mean people can control your computer via your IP if you give "Tech Support Services" your IP and remote desktop password. If you gave that out, you'd be stupid is what I said. Sorry if you took that wrong. And Who.is thinks I live in Mount Laurel, NJ and I don't even live within 20 miles of there let alone 10. http://who.is/whois-ip/ip-address/76.116.224.67/ Okay. 25 characters. Stupid character Limit -___- Okay okay, calm down :p Right, I've downloaded the server client on my desktop and set up a user account and given it a home directory. That is all I've done. Now what? Sign in via filezilla client which can be downloaded via filezilla-project.org or as i said above windows explorer. Okay got into it via windows explorer. Now: Can i access this from something that isn't connected to my network? Thanks for all of this help btw, very much appreciated. And how do i set up no-ip? i've downloaded the application and also created the account It wont allow me to log on at all now, i type in the username and password correctly and when i click log in it just disappears and comes back again 'could not log into the ftp server with the username specified' at the top. Definitely the right user and password. I've tried changing it ect too. This only happens when using the external ip address or no-ip domain. Did you "Add a host" in no-ip and typed in your dynamic ip address? Please also note it may up to 24 hours for it work. what ip do i type in? the one from ip config? Yes that is the one (The one that starts with 192.168) Did you try it? Just changes back to my external ip and still doesn't work. Gah why does nothing work for me?? Can access it through 192.168 ip from windows explorer but would like to be able to access it from outside of my home network. No-ip should have done that for you. Look around for videos and stuff for help. Cameron I can understand using filezilla as a client. Why not just use IIS which is built into 2000, XP, or 7 for that matter it is under add/remove in the control panel as one of the windows components software under windows xp and I believe its under the control panel Progra and features. There should be a windows component on the left hand side there as well where you can install for free IIS windows Internet information services. And within IIS there should be something there for FTP. It's easy and quick as can be there. Well I prefer FileZilla for the look, settings, site manager, and more over any other clients.
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How about mapping the device? You'd have to share the hard drive by going to Computer, and clicking the drive you want to share, and right click and press properties. Go to sharing. Press advanced sharing, click share this folder. Press OK. Now, copy down that Network path. It should look similar to this.
Now go back to Click on map network drive. Give it a drive letter, and then write down the network path EXACTLY like how you copied it down. Press reconnect on sign-in, and press use different credentials assuming you have a different password/username combo on your other computer. If all goes well, you should be up and running. Right i think this is what i want to do. But when i go to map it, it says network path not found. I've checked the exact spelling ect. Do you have the same username/password on the other computer? If you do, skip the different credentials. If you don't input them. I have a different password. If I click on network via my laptop, my desktop doesn't show up that it's on the network. They are both connected to the same router and are connected to the Internet? do you have network sharing enabled? are both computers apart of the same workgroup? I'm not too sure on either. How do i enable them and find out? When i click to connect wirelessly from the task bar on my laptop, it says 'Wireless Network Connection 2' But on my desktop it says 'Wireless Network Connection 3'. Don't know if that has anything to do with it? As long as you're on the same home network, you should see it. It shouldn't take that long to find it.
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You need to create a network share on the "server" then mount that as a network drive on the other computer. |
