You can do this but you would be better to mount the Hardrive in the Desktop.
Use Laplink gold or a network conenction and map the dell laptop as a network drive.
Printable View
You can do this but you would be better to mount the Hardrive in the Desktop.
Use Laplink gold or a network conenction and map the dell laptop as a network drive.
wireless? and share folders.. or router and share folders, if you put linux on it , you could install webmin or something and use it as a server
Okay but say for instance I was playing music could I have my Windows Media Player playing from the folder on the other PC with my music in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colin-Roberts
That is possible if your connected to the same router. Ive done it before on my laptop and on my ps3 tooQuote:
Originally Posted by BoyBetterKnow
Okay, we've clarified it's possible...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunny,
Yes, however this will not be possible until the release of Windows 7.. it has the facilities to create a home group of each computer and save data to and from the networked PC.Quote:
Originally Posted by BoyBetterKnow
I downloaded 300GB via windows 7 from my XP machine. Download speeds were about 5.9MB as it is networked.
5.9MB/s ? That's pretty slow, is your XP machine IDE? Normally when I'm transferring files from one pc to another over a 100Mbit link it goes a lot faster :SQuote:
Originally Posted by InfusionHosting
I'm using a usb atm :|
Well considering wireless to wired would cause that...Quote:
Originally Posted by Flisker
My computer is not that old :D IDE is in the 1990s... OOhhh I remember the old Dell Dimension Intel Pentium II processor with 256MB ram running Windows 98... Aha. G'd old days.
Ah wireless to wired, sorry I presumed it was wired to wired.Quote:
Originally Posted by InfusionHosting