To make the Dell harddrive accessible to the laptop, follow these directions.
I advise that you do 'use the wizard to enable file sharing'. Principally because you will want to enable the Internet Connection Firewall on mom's Dell. Because you are sharing her harddrive, you don't want it exposed to the whole internet.
Don't screw around w/ 'hidden' shared folders.
Really, all you should need to do is establish sharing on the Dell pc. If you need to transfer files, you push/pull them using the Dell laptop. I would not advise setting up any sort of sharing on the laptop.
Once you've gone through this wizard, you should be able to goto 'windows explorer' on the laptop and browsing around that file tree, see the Dell PC shared harddrive listed. If you don't, you might need to reboot the laptop just so that it connects back to the Dell and initiates properly.
Do not setup any sort of file or directory synchronization! This sounds like an interesting idea and so on, but it ends up leavings messes and being a pain in the ass. Do not.
Posted by Nils Blutig at March 9, 2003 12:44 PM | TrackBack