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sharing external hard drive
Name: danmarshall2000 Date: January 21, 2009 at 05:32:54 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: . Product: . / . Subcategory: Servers
Comment:
i am currently ripping all of my music to my new 640 external hard drive in order to share it over my home network (laptop/ps3). every time I get to the point where I can name the drive and click ok, I get the following message: "An error occurred while trying to share My Book (F). The server service is not started. The shared resource was not created at this time." What is that all about????
Name: guapo Date: January 21, 2009 at 06:06:40 Pacific
Reply:
Check the following: Enable file sharing. Share the drive. Put all PCs in the same workgroup.
If the external drive is on the XP box, go to the laptop, click start, run, type \\IP_of the XP box and press enter. Ex: \\192.1681.100 Explorer should open with the drive.
If all that works, then map the drive to the laptop and create a shortcut.
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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: January 21, 2009 at 06:16:03 Pacific
Reply:
And start the Server Service.
"So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown
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Response Number 3
Name: danmarshall2000 Date: January 21, 2009 at 16:10:08 Pacific
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i'm using network magic to connect all of my different computers etc. NW considered the drive a folder and not a device, so i went in and "shared" a new folder.
I appreciate your responses. I'm sure that your solutions would have worked, i'm just glad i didn't have to use them, b/c i'm still a little lost with your direction. once again...THANKS.
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