I Have a portable Hard drive hooked up to a computer in my house, and I have it shared, now I can't remember how to get access to it from the other computer in the house.

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Originally posted by: 64bitX2g33k
I Have a portable Hard drive hooked up to a computer in my house, and I have it shared, now I can't remember how to get access to it from the other computer in the house.

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You have to log in to the other computer with the hard drive using the account you have access to the share with from My Network places.

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You have to put all the other computers on the network by giving them the same range of local ips (192.168.1.xx). It's also easier to put them all in the same workgroup.

When you go to "My Network Places" and "View Workgroup Computers", you should see the shared drives...

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the simplest ways is just:

\\computername in the address bar of an explorer or ie window, that'll access the computer directly, then you can go from there to whatever is shared

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Originally posted by: mckennma
You have to log in to the other computer with the hard drive using the account you have access to the share with from My Network places.

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it's already shared though?

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Originally posted by: boule
You have to put all the other computers on the network by giving them the same range of local ips (192.168.1.xx)

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not really, if the place has multiple routers, switches, or whatever, there'll be different ranges used by those and everything should work fine together, as long as they are connected together in some way the ip doesn't matter

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Originally posted by: np6s4x
it's already shared though?

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Yeah but it could be password protected

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Originally posted by: np6s4x
not really, if the place has multiple routers, switches, or whatever, there'll be different ranges used by those and everything should work fine together, as long as they are connected together in some way the ip doesn't matter

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The computers would be on different local networks, and if they're not connected together, then they won't all be accessible to each other

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Originally posted by: boule
Yeah but it could be password protected

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still not quite sure what doing something on the already shared and setup computer, has to do with accessing the data from a different one?

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Originally posted by: Unknown The computers would be on different local networks, and if they're not connected together, then they won't all be accessible to each other

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lol, well yea, if they physically aren't connected then it isn't gonna work, i mean there being like 192.168.100.x, 192.168.10.x, 192.168.5.x, and some on each, every computer should be able to access every computer if the routers are all connected together

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Originally posted by: np6s4x
still not quite sure what doing something on the already shared and setup computer, has to do with accessing the data from a different one?

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He was saying to log on to the computer with the shated disk from ANOTHER computer

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Originally posted by: np6s4x
lol, well yea, if they physically aren't connected then it isn't gonna work, i mean there being like 192.168.100.x, 192.168.10.x, 192.168.5.x, and some on each, every computer should be able to access every computer if the routers are all connected together

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Nops, even if all are on the same network, with only one router, you can configure them in such a way that they are on different sub-networks, and you can't access one from a different sub-network.

I was more referring to one with the address 192.168.1.1 and another with 193.168.1.1... It also has something to do with the subnet mask

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Originally posted by: boule
He was saying to log on to the computer with the shated disk from ANOTHER computer

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umm...the post doesn't say anything about logging on to the computer itself, just the shared drive

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Originally posted by: 64bitX2g33k
I Have a portable Hard drive hooked up to a computer in my house, and I have it shared, now I can't remember how to get access to it from the other computer in the house.

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I would reference this guide:
http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=52145

Just make sure to share the drive on the computer you have the drive attached to
Make sure all computers are on the same workgroup
And that should be it.

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Thanks for the help when I get home tonight I will try some of your options then repost.

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Have you ran network wizard on both machines?

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