Saturday, June 20, 2009

Sharing the hard disk on Windows

If You have two computers at home or a PC and a Laptop. and you want to share hard disk of one computer on other in vista then follow below instructions after connecting both computers via LAN =)

For Vista:
  • Open My computer
  • Right click on partition you want share like D: and then choose to share.
  • In the new window click the Security tab.
  • Click on the Edit button.
  • Click the Add button.
  • Type "guest" (without quotes) where the cursor blinks.
  • Validate by clicking on the OK button.
  • If you need to write on this disk from the network, check the "modification" in the authorizations.
  • Then confirm by clicking OK.
  • Please wait while Windows changed all authorizations.
  • Click the Sharing tab.
  • Click the Advanced Sharing button.
  • In the new window, check Share this folder.
  • Click on the Permissions button.
  • Type "guest" (without quotes) where the cursor blinks.
  • Validate by clicking on OK and OK again.
  • If you need to write on this disk from the network, check the change in permits.
  • Then confirm by clicking OK.
  • Please wait while Windows changed all authorizations (several minutes if you share a lot of files).
For XP:

  • Open My computer
  • Right click on partition you want share like D: and then choose to Properties.
  • Select Sharing Tab


  • Select "if you understand the....."

  • Perform above step and Click Ok.
p.s. if you have to take lot of movies from your friend than please Don't use USB because its really slow. Just take a lan cable create a connection, Share drives and Share wateva you want at 100 MB/sec =)

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