I am a self employed architect and I work closely with another architect, we bounce work back and forth.
He is now moving house and will no longer be 5 minutes down the road, or it would be very helpful if he could see my hard drive (or at least one of my 3) since we exchange a lot of site photo's (normally about 150 MB's worth per job)
Is there an easy way to allow him access to one of my hard drives? We both use XP Pro with wireless routers and 4mb connection if thats ny help.
2007-03-21 10:26:51 · 7 answers · asked by Steven N 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Several ways to go about this, and it depends on how technical you are, and if you want to spend money.
1.(free:moderately technical, not user-friendly) Set up FTP on the computer where you wish to share files. I use GUILD FTP for windows for this.
If your computer is behind a router where your computers are picking up an RFC 1918 space (192.168.x.x, 172.16.x.x or 10.x.x.x) you will need to create a port forwarding for port 21 in your router.
A port forwarding is a section where you tell it "if you see somebody trying to make a connection to the routers IP address, then send that connection to this internal IP".
2. (pay: moderately technical, user friendly) Use PCanywhere the port forwarding is harder for this, but since it is a purchased product they have good docs and customer support for setting it up.
3. (pay, low technical, semi-user friendly) Use http://gotomypc.com
4. (pay, low technical, very user friendly, added convenience) Setup third party hosting for a storage area that you both can access from any computer, anywhere. An example is:
http://www.ibackup.com/
5. (pay, high technically, user friendly) Set up a VPN tunnel between your houses and share the drive as if it were on a local network. Setting up VPN is vendor specific, so you would have to look into it.
2007-03-21 10:40:25 · answer #1 · answered by Greg T 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you bypass your router and plug directly into your Cable / DSL modem and using Windows XP Pro - You can turn your machine into an FTP server. Its a lot to type here to explain - but once done your friend could type ftp:\\your ip address - Be promted for a username and password - and then have access to your files. To install FTP on your machine. Control Panel - Add Remove Programs - Add Remove Windows Components. IIS - Clcik Details and check FTP - Install. Search yahoo for setting up FTP on a windows XP machine - It takes some playing around - but youll figure it out
2007-03-21 11:30:59 · answer #2 · answered by wesinls 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are free online programs that give over internet networkign thats like LAN but over the internet I can't remeber the name but Ill try and find it.
2007-03-21 10:31:05 · answer #3 · answered by sbraidley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would use some of the free secure file hosting sites that are out there like xdrive etc...
2007-03-21 10:32:49 · answer #4 · answered by 7S282 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
S**t man, take any advice you're given on here carefully! If you're using wireless routers make sure they're bomb proof to the outside world.
2007-03-21 10:31:42 · answer #5 · answered by Michael F 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You can use programs that would allow FTP access to your computer, like wwwpro or serv-u:
http://www.serv-u.com/
2007-03-21 10:32:06 · answer #6 · answered by ..::|QATAR|::.. 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
assuming you are already networked together you can right click on the drive you want to share in the my computer folder and select properties and tell it to share there. it will let you share fully or partially.
2007-03-21 10:30:59 · answer #7 · answered by Stever 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋