Network folders showing up on THE INTERNET and not MY NETWORK
I have a wireless router which my printer, desktop pc, and laptop are all hooked up together...I set up wireless network connection from my laptop which has xp pro and i can access the files. The files im sharing on my desktop pc with Vista ultimate are shown , but are under the name THe Internet. The printer and router icons are under My Network....i want to get my share folders from my desktop pc and my laptop pc to show under the network also, so they are not on the internet. ive tried simple file sharing and that doesn't work. please help!
ASKER
that did not do anything because my network was already on private, nice try though.
ASKER
my guess is that this setting is okay if my folder is under the internet tab...
my wireless connection is encrypted with WPA-2 security, and i have windows firewall up.
also, i check the location of the folder on the network and it says \\DESKTOP-PC
there is not an http or ftp in that address, so i guess this is okay? am i right or should these folders show up under the network tabs. thanks!
justin
my wireless connection is encrypted with WPA-2 security, and i have windows firewall up.
also, i check the location of the folder on the network and it says \\DESKTOP-PC
there is not an http or ftp in that address, so i guess this is okay? am i right or should these folders show up under the network tabs. thanks!
justin
as long as you can get to the shares, you should be sweet. however, there are just some minor differences in security being applied depending on where it is.
ASKER
what kind of minor security...because i still would love the files to be on the network because i can access them 100 times faster, does anyone else know how to put my shared folders on my network and not the internet. thanks!
Move the files to another folder, then map a network drive to those folders on each machine.
You could actually move all the files to 1 folder, and only map the machine that the folder is NOT on as a network drive (S: perhaps for Shared).
This would remove the files from the Internet (no longer in Shared Folder) and retain them on your local network.
You could actually move all the files to 1 folder, and only map the machine that the folder is NOT on as a network drive (S: perhaps for Shared).
This would remove the files from the Internet (no longer in Shared Folder) and retain them on your local network.
how do i MAP a network drive?
ASKER
how would i map a network drive? is that like setting up the network connection or where do i go to do that...if there is no way for people online to look at my files, then i think i will be cool with it being on the internet, because this is a really hard question which i dont think anyone knows how to help. thanks!
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The easy answer is ... if you do not want access via the Internet to your files...
BTW: XP is pretty much same to map the network drive. You are simply "pointing" a drive letter to a folder. You then can call:
"c:\my private files\" as what even letter you defined the drive letter during above setup. (S:\)
BTW: XP is pretty much same to map the network drive. You are simply "pointing" a drive letter to a folder. You then can call:
"c:\my private files\" as what even letter you defined the drive letter during above setup. (S:\)
ASKER
very good help. thanks so much!
that puts them on the same (local) network I believe, so the shared folders don't appear to come from the internet (public)
http://www.maximumpcguides.com/change-the-network-location-type/