Timeline for Quick way to share files on a PC with another PC that's NOT on the same network (work laptop on a domain, home PC on a home network)
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| Sep 12, 2014 at 1:57 | comment | added | MGOwen | 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... | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 0:16 | comment | added | Richie086 | 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. | |
| Sep 2, 2014 at 8:21 | comment | added | MGOwen | Isn't Dropbox a remote (cloud) only service? Surely some kind of simple local file share would be more secure, faster, larger, and cheaper? | |
| Sep 1, 2014 at 7:44 | history | answered | Richie086 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |