Connecting Laptop to Desktop

[Jofm5]

Whirls,

Due to all the script kiddies windows no longer advertises its presence on the network, however it will have established a connection with your router so rather than refer to your machines by name use the ip addresses instead.

Check on your router what your dhcp range is and most will also tell you which machines have which IP lease. thus you can refer to each machine by its unique address on the network. If you dont have access to the router then you can open a command prompt in each machine and type

Code:

 IPCONFIG

this will tell the address of that machine, most likely in the 192.168.1.x range (although belkins seem to prefer 192.168.2.x)

You can then share a folder on one machine and access from the other but rather than open that share to the public authenticate using the credentials of the machine you want to connect to. (sounds complicated but is easy)

For example if you create a share on mypc1 called myshare then from my pc2 you can open a dos prompt and type......

Code:

 net use z: \\mypc1\myshare /User:mypc1\PC1User PC1Password

replace mypc1 with the ip address e.g. 192.168.2.1
replace myshare with the actual share name used
replace mypc1\pc1user with the windows name of the pc your connecting to followed by the backslash (\) and then the user name you normally log on as
replace pc1password with the password of the above account that you log on with.

z: could be any available drive letter that you wish to mount the share on.

of course this can all be done via the gui but its alot less intuitive.

Should you wish to unmount the share you can simply right click and disconnect or from a command prompt type

Code:

 net delete z:

to share a folder or drive just right click in explorer on the item you wish to share on the machine in question and select sharing.