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Greetings, I'd like to watch video clips on my Windows PC from my iPhone. The videos generated are often large (a few gigabytes). When I was at my home, I had my PC and iPhone under the same Wi-Fi network and I just turned on file sharing and used nplayer on my iPhone. That works perfectly fine. However recently I moved back to my dorm, and I suspect the 'eduroam' WiFi at the dorm has turned on client isolation, making me can no longer reach my PC from my iPhone. I've tried to use the Infuse FTP, but the speed is just too slow and I have to download the entire file to my phone. Could someone help me with this? Thank you very much. -
I am a complete novice when it comes to networking. I'm calling remote file sharing. I'm sure this is not the right term which is why I've been getting different advice from everyone I talk to about this. With that caveat out of the way here is what I would ultimately need: 1. Local hardwired file drive storage w/ redundancy in the cloud and on separate disk drives (I have this with my WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra 5TB RIOT) 2. I want my remote workers (1 in TX 1 in CA) to be able to use these files in the same way they did when they were sitting at a desk in the office WITHOUT having to provide them a local workstation to remote into. 3. Ultimately what I am trying to protect against is having 2 people unknowingly working on the same file and saving over the others' work. I'm open to using a paid service for this and would probably prefer it considering my lack of knowledge in this area. Thanks for all the help! -
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Greetings and my apologies as I am sure this issue has been discussed before. But, all of the threads I found related to this issue where not very easy to understand. To begin, I am setting up a small home storage pc/NAS I am using windows 10 as that is what I am most familiar with. I have managed to get it set up to work through file sharing so that anyone on the network can simply put in the file path and use it like any other drive. This systems should work fine as I just need it to store bulk data later, on I will add plex to stream videos. I am now trying to set it up so that I can access it remotely. My router supports openvpn natively so I decided to role with that, I can connect to the network fine but can only access files if I turn off the systems public firewall. Obviously this is not a great option as it makes it far more vulnerable, most of the suggestions I have seen suggest editing the inbound rules in the windows firewall settings. However, I am still rather new to networking in general so most of the information I have seen does not make much sense to me. I have seen a possible solution is to add my vpn's subnet as an exception to the firewall, how would I go about doing this? I am not sure what my subnet is or how I would add the exception. This seems like a software issue but just incase here are the system specs just in case: OS = Windows 10 VPN = OpenVPN Case/Motherboard = Dell Optiplex 390 CPU = i7 2600 Ram = DDR3 16GB Kit (2 x 8GB) 1600MHz Storage = Seagate BarraCuda 8TB x 3 in windows parity for the storage array and a WD 500GB HHD as an OS drive GPU = GTX 1080 PSU = 550w Bronze Router = Asus RT-AX58U Sorry for the rambling nature of my post and for my general incompetence. A huge thank you to anyone who is able to offer advice or suggestions! -
Besides the more proper UI, I have no clue why people use plex instead of watching movies from an SMB share. I have searched and couldn't find an answer. Streaming videos from my server to my phone with SMB and VLC mobile works just fine. And isn't plex gpu intensive? So I ask. Why? -
I'm going crazy. I am unable to access the shared folder on my desktop from my laptop... I've been trying... Can I please have some help? Desktop PC: Running Windows 10 Pro on ethernet cable Laptop: Running Windows 10 Home on WiFi Logged in with same MS account on both PC. When I click on TuringMachine (name of desktop) to open it I get greeted with typing my credentials but password don't work.. So I would like to be able to access the folder I set as shared from my E drive. I gave "everybody" all permissions in advanced sharing. I turned on network discovery and file and printer sharing in nw&sharing center I set the following services to automatic start Function Discovery Provider Host Function Discovery Resource Publication SSDP Discovery UPnP Device Host I turned on SMB 1.0/CIFS Client (all three options are on) I set up Windows credentials with local IP to each computer as network address This is possible with Windows 10 Home, yes..no...? Please help, I have only a 120 GB SSD in this laptop lol.
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My dad and I are wanting to build a server, I would like the server to be able to run Minecraft with at least 8 players and mods. My dad would like to use it for use to share files and also use it as a firewall as we are getting alot of attacks. I was wondering if first if is possible to do all 3 things on one server. Second what parts do we need or what prebuild server (if there are any) we could buy. He has set a budget of $1000 Dollars or less. I have also heard to not waste money on a GPU for this type of server as RAM and CPU are more important and that the integrated graphics would be fine for using a monitor, is this true? Any and all help is appreciated and Thank You for taking your time to help. -
I recently got a HP business PC, and want to turn it into a server. I want to have file sharing, firewall (like but not limited to PFsense), and to be able to run Minecraft servers on it. Is doing all that on one machine possible? Also the PC comes with win 10 pro, should I change OS? If it is possible what is the best and safest way (security and remote connection wise) to approach this? The specs of the PC are not bad by any means and it is very upgradable. Specs Intel Core i7-9700 3GHz 16 Gbs of ram (15.8 Gbs usable) 64 bit system, x64-based processor On board GPU
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Let me start by saying I'm no Mac guy and know little about OS X, However I was given an old mid 2010 Mac Mini to mess around with running OS X 10.13.6 and having an issue with getting into my Media "server". I have a few computers in the house with sharing enabled and the ones with password logins work as you would expect. But the one I use to store my media files doesn't have any passwords set and none of the options I use work, Just giving me a can not connect error. I have tried using "guest" as well as the windows admin account name and both blank or random password (sometimes works on Linux/Android systems) -
I'm trying to share a folder between computers. The first computer has the file on it and I shared it with all privledges (read/write/etc..) for all users. It is a Win 7 home computer so its not a domain account. The second computer is on the domain. I get "\\computer 1 is not accessible. You might not have the permission to use this network resource. Contact the admin of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Login failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer" when I try to access that computer in the "network" tab on the left of the "My computer" window. I tried a few guides that told me to edit things on the local group policy on the server, but they didn't work. Any ideas on how to fix it? I didn't set the computers up this way and adding it to the domain is the last option that I don't want to do. -
Here is my situation. I have a computer running plex with my media library on a share drive so i can add from other computers on the network. it double's as my home nas. When i connect my nas to my network via ethernet into an unmanaged switch into my router i am unable to access the share drive on any other computer. after hours of troubleshooting i just unplugged the ethernet and let it use built in wifi and now i can map my drives and folders and everything works fine on every device. The error i was getting when connected via ethernet was your device is configured correctly but the device i was trying to talk to was not responding. I'm new to networking. could someone please tell me what is going on?
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I have some files on my computer that i want to share with some friends and i want them to be able to access the files when ever they want. But i don't want to us Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. because of data quotas. is there any software for Windows to let them access the files on my computer similar to a server?
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I've recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop and I on a day to day basis I used to share files between my old windows 7 os to my windows 10 desktop, but I'm wondering how would I do this process through a terminal? I'd really appreciate the help
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Hi all, I'm new here and a bit of an amateur, so please bear with me. Last year my friend gifted me a 2011 mac. I have since bought a pc with windows 10 that does almost everything I could want, however the mac has Logic Pro and a number of other useful music-related applications. My plan is to keep the mac in my music room connected up to the mics etc, and send any other files over that I might need. For example, I want to send over some live gig audio from my camera (which the pc is infinitely better at dealing with) so I can chop it up and eq it in Logic. I know I could just put the files I need on physical storage and move it around, but if I manage to set this up it'll be much more convenient. I have gotten so far as attempting to connect the mac to a server. It asks me for a password and I'm not exactly sure what one it's asking for. I've tried all the passwords for everything I can think of. Apologies for the quality of the attached pic. I'm using a standard keyboard on the mac and don't know how to screenshot Can normally botch my way through this stuff but not today it seems. If anyone could take the time to somewhat walk me through this it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dean
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What is the best method for access files over the internet? or allow a computer to access an inventory database from a remote location, but has to be secure.
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My parents run a business that consists of 5 desktop machines that are all managed by a relatively old Dell Poweredge running Windows Small Business Server 2012. There Is a 2tb raid 1 shared as network storage where they store all the files. They work with a tech company that wants to charge them $1200 USD to "Untangle the machines from the server" and move there files to SharePoint. Which to me, seems like way to much. So as an alternative, I am thinking about getting two identical servers with 4+tb of raid, one at there home, and one at the business. And do the type of thing linus did a while back and have the home and server sync creating an offsite backup for both the home and the business. The business computers would store there files on the new NAS and the home computers would backup to the NAS. I feel this would be cheaper than going to SharePoint, and would allow them to work regardless of internet conditions. Plus they get an offsite backup both at there home and business. The idea is that it costs less the $150/mo for SharePoint, and find a way around the "Untangling Fee." I'm not experienced in real world business examples, but ive created NAS like soloutions at my house before. What could the "Untangling" fee actually be for, and is it something I could do myself? I imagine its just creating locla logins for each computer. Any suggestions about having two local NASs rather than just using SharePoint or some other External file sharing/backup system? I hope I was clear in my writing above. How have you guys handled similar situations? Do you have an in home NAS?
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So the computer we are trying to access actually can be accessed by other computers. It used to be accessible on this one, but now its not. When I click on the computer, it asks the user ID and password, but when I enter those, it says they are wrong. They are correct though and I even made a new admin account and tried logging in with those credentials and it says they are wrong. I've tried restarting both computers, I tried pinging the computer with the files on it (does successfully), turned the antivirus and firewall off, etc... Both computers are set to a private network, etc... Any suggestions? I believe the computer we are trying to access is running Windows 7 (might be 10 though, can't remember), and the computer that is trying to connect is running Windows 7.
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I have a laptop and a workstation. Both have wifi in them. I have connected both on the same wifi as well as connected both to each other using a single cat 5 ethernet cable. Both have gigabit internet NICs. The way I have connected them using ethernet is by assigning ip address of one machine as the gateway of the other. Say Laptop has IP 192.168.1.2 & Gateway 192.168.1.1 Workstation has IP 192.168.1.1 & Gateway 192.168.1.2 This way both the pc's can see each other on the same network even when the wifi is turned off. The problem arises when I'm transferring files between them, either windows switches to wifi mid way or when file transfers happen using the ethernet I'm unable to use the internet. I have also tried changing the metric. IP should be not an issue as for the wifi I have assigned them IP in the range 192.168.1.1XX What should I do inorder to make windows use ethernet for file sharing and wifi for internet.
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I'm trying to make a very simple website to share files across a local network. My current solution is to run Reactor Server and just use the browser's built in indexing to navigate. (See attached screenshot). I can't seem to find a template online. Basically I'm looking for the easiest way to make the server index page look better.
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Even after turning off password protected sharing windows still prompts for one when trying to access the shared folder from another pc.
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I've been trying to connect two PCs together with an ethernet cable. What I mean by that is I'd like to be able to transfer files between them. I started by connecting them together with a crossover cable. After configurating their IP adresses Xubuntu showed up a ethernet connection but windows showed that I have no ethernet cables plugged in. Does anyone know how to setup a 2 machine file sharing network? I'm new to networking and I just don't know what to do. -
So I'm learning very quickly that Networking basic things like folders and even accessing other drives on computers with a non-current OS on Windows 10 is absolutely frustrating. I am trying to share 1 folder from my main desktop to my old laptop. My desktop runs current Windows 10 and the laptop runs Windows 7. I have now learned that Homegroups have been done away with which is how I used to connect PCs on my home LAN. So my question is how the hell can I do it, I can't access my Desktops storage from my laptop because I can't guess the correct credentials ( I don't even know if I can do it without a local account or if I can just do it with my Microsoft account which is stupid in its own regard but lets ignore that for now). I can access the laptop from my desktop and drop the file there but I want to make it a two way street for simplicity's sake. Also, I'll give someone brownie points if they can also help me figure out how to have the files update automatically, I know there is a way but from tutorials, I've seen it isn't exactly clear. Also also on a slightly different note (I may just go ahead and create a different topic for this one but if it can be answered here that would be awesome) I thought if all else fails I can plug an old external hard drive into my router and use that as a medium to move the file but then, of course, I need it to be secure, encrypted, password protected or whatever it takes so that it can't be accessed by other users on my home network. Not saying that my family would do anything on purpose but I still don't want anything I am not explicitly giving them access to, to be opened either on purpose or on accident. I know there is a lot here but I'm grateful to anyone that can help me with this. Thank you very much -
Hi I want to share a folder in my system to a group of friends who are not connected to my network. Is there any way in which i can share my folder to other network?
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networking Need help setting up an at home network server
TankError144 posted a topic in Troubleshooting
Hello all, I'm having some serious novice issues when it comes to networking in-home. So the issue I'm having is that I have an HDD that I have set to share its files among my home network, but even after setting all the computers in my house to "share files on network" with full access, most of the time, the computers just don't show up in the network, and even if they do, the files/folders/HDDs I have set to share don't show up. I was able to transfer 1 file (by random chance it feels) but the transfer speeds were horrible (1-3megabytes/sec) and given that the file being transferred was roughly 25gb and the computer it was transferred to was using wireless, I still couldn't imagine why it's so bad. the idea is that id like the network I want set up, at least at the moment, is to be able to stream media off of it, movies and music, and transfer files between computers in a relatively reasonable time. thank you to anyone who helps in advance.
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So myself and a friend are colaborating on a project (music) and I'd like to be able to send him files without having to upload them to a website for him to download. Is it possible I can map a network drive on his PC that links back to my server at my house? He's really not very tech savvy at all so a I feel like mapping a network drive is the simplest solution that doesnt require any logins (like a VPN or FTP) and that doesn't require me to upload files, send him the link, he downloads it, reuploads, sends me the link and so on. I have a computer running Windows Server 2016 that acts as a TeamSpeak server, a game hosting server and my own file storage server, which is on 24/7. Is this possible for me to do? Thank you! -
So here is a quick rundown of what has gone on so far. I spent many hours configuring my router for port forwarding (success) Set up a website which I want to use for file sharing (success) setting up a system, that when i upload new files to my ftp storage server that it gets displayed on my website, but not with the usual ftp website look that you would get with ftp:// (nope) I want it to be on a spreadsheet of some sort, directly implemented into my website. And when a new file is uploaded, it shows on the spreadsheet with the name and size or some sort of information, and from here i can directly download it with the click of a button. I know i could simply put a link to the website, but i want to make it look professional. Basically what i need is some sort of platform or program (preferably open source/free) that can mirror the data on my ftp site to my actual site, but in a graph/spreadsheet of some sort, so it doesn't look like plain html. I want it to look something like google drive or onedrive where it shows up nice and modern, and i can then access it. Maybe this is possible by uploading the files to a folder inside the website folder and then hosting it myself using ftp web hosting?
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