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re: Accessing drive a PC in network
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 11:24 am
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Posted by Johnb33 (1813 messages posted)


Run network setup wizard on both pc's, making sure each computer is on the same workgroup 
and named differently.  Enable sharing on the drives you want access to.  After that, 
all you have to do is just map the network drives that you want to have access to





On Friday, September 18, 2009 at 7:26 pm, Planetmars wrote:
>I have two PCs connected in LAN. I want to access the drives of PC2 (Name N2, IP
>10.1.5.135) from another computer, PC1 (Name K1). I gave the following command in
>Start Menu --> run
>\\10.1.5.135\D$ on PC1 (Name K1)
>Then it is asking for password of the Guest account of PC2. I am not able to change
>the user id in that prompt, because it is disabled. The word N2\Guest is displayed
>in the user name field. However, PC2 does not have a guest account. I created a guest
>account and tried. Still it is not working. Please help me.



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Accessing drive a PC in network (Planetmars: Friday, September 18, 2009 at 7:26 pm)

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-Accessing drive a PC in network (Planetmars: Fri, Sep 18, 2009, 7:26 pm)
*re: Accessing drive a PC in network (Johnb33: Sat, Sep 19, 2009, 11:24 am)
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