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Isn't Dropbox a remote (cloud) only service? Surely some kind of simple local file share would be more secure, faster, larger, and cheaper?
– MGOwen
Commented Sep 2, 2014 at 8:21
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oh, for some reason I had the impression you were trying to share files between a computer, located at your workplace and a computer on your home network. Is this work laptop at your house, but you are just having issues connecting to a windows file share? From your work computer, you should be able to connect to a file share located on a home computer by typing \\ipaddress\sharedfolder in explorer. Set the share permissions on your local computer to allow the Everyone group to read/write to the share and you should be able to copy stuff from your work computer if its on the same LAN.
– Richie086
Commented Sep 8, 2014 at 0:16
You're right Richie086, my title is confusing. I wonder how I can express this properly? "How do I get PCs on the same LAN but not on the same WINDOWS network to share files" maybe? Thanks I'll try the \\ method again but I don't think that worked last time...
– MGOwen
Commented Sep 12, 2014 at 1:57

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