Get Some
General => Technology & Hardware => Topic started by: swindle on May 27, 2013, 03:49:24 pm
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Or maybe I'm doing it wrong?
In any case, this should be so much easier then it is.
I have a computer, I want to make a drive in the computer visible to everyone on the network with the ability to both read and write to said drive.
How do I do that?
I have shared the drive and added read/write permissions via advanced sharing, but I still cannot access the folder. I can see it, I can read or write to it though.
What. The. Fuck.
OS X has got you by the balls with this Windows, it really really does.
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Careful swindle, you are sounding more and more like an iFanboi.
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So be it.
I'm becoming a fanboy thick and fast here.
Any idea how easy it is to share with a OS X? So very very easy. So very very quick.
I'm starting to loath windows more and more.
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Windows 7 sharing took a fuck-turn for the worse.
You have to be in the same homegroup (work, public or home).
It's a hell of a stupid process.
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Yep, agreed - it's stupidly hard to get it working. I find myself adding a fake user account and then giving the person/other computer that username/password and then they're able to access the drive.
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Windows 7 sharing took a fuck-turn for the worse.
You have to be in the same homegroup (work, public or home).
It's a hell of a stupid process.
I've found the homegroup feature makes it a lot easier.
Before that, sharing was a pain.
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Have a look at the securities tab as well as sharing.If it does not have Everyone then add it and the permissions.
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my current household setup has a shared drive and a couple of shared folders, both running windows, both in the homegroup and the other computers username has to be on an approved list or something maybe? (I set this up ages ago and I've changed the router and my computer a couple times around and it still works)
I'm a networking noob and I found it pretty easy, I think windows has a setup guide as I'm pretty sure I just followed some instructions.
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\\ComputerName\C$
Access ALL the things!
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OMG
I'm going to cry.
Simple question - If there some software I can use to share drives so I can both read and write from said drives?
Fuck you home group and fuck you microsoft. Your shit sucks.
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haha. i hear ya swindle.
I find it easier on my mac to connect to the pc via ip
cmd+k
smb://192.168.1.1/ or whatever.
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on your pc, right click on the drive and share it there bla bla bla etc, get really frustrated at how annoying windows is, contemplate putting OSX on your pc via hackintosh......
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http://www.hackintosh.com/
dooooit!
then al you need is to boot into winblows for gaming ;)
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M M M M M M MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULTIPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!
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I just can not be fucked with windows anymore. I really can't.
A month with OS X and windows feels like such a piece of shit, both navigating and stability.
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Now you can truly see why I use OSX at work for photo work and printing.
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I think MS has lost the plot tbh..
Make a user account on the windows computer, and when you share the folder, under the permissions, add that user with read/write permissions
From the other computer, connect to the drive, and authenticate with \ in the username, and the password you made .. should work
(e.g. if your windows PC was called swindle-PC and the user you created was called Frank, you would authenticate with "Swindle-PC\Frank" as the username)
And seriously, the metro touchscreen interface on Server2012.. who's moronic idea was that.
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I think MS has lost the plot tbh..
Make a user account on the windows computer, and when you share the folder, under the permissions, add that user with read/write permissions
From the other computer, connect to the drive, and authenticate with \ in the username, and the password you made .. should work
(e.g. if your windows PC was called swindle-PC and the user you created was called Frank, you would authenticate with "Swindle-PC\Frank" as the username)
And seriously, the metro touchscreen interface on Server2012.. who's moronic idea was that.
Why does it matter what it looks like? It is the same thing as a start menu. The only thing you use it for is to search for stuff.
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And sharing is easy with windows 8.
Share the folder.
Make sure you have File and Print sharing allowed in the firewall (an option to allow this is given when you connect to a network, you probably clicked no)
Network center -> advanced sharing -> all networks -> turn off password.
If you have any problems after that, you fucked up.
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Shares are easy in Windows - you just have to know how to do it....
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Shares are easy in Windows - you just have to know how to do it....
This.
I've had no problems.
I think swindle is just doing it wrong.
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I had the same issues. What's worse is that they advertised how easy it was to share files etc. Bullshit, it's confusing as fuck.
Honestly, Someone give me another operating system! Mac is overpriced and evil, Windows is shit, Linux sounds wonderful but can't run the anything...
Please google, mozilla or someone give me a new OS for Christmas...
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Run OSX on your PC :P
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Run PC on your OSX!
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Share the folder.
Make sure you have File and Print sharing allowed in the firewall (an option to allow this is given when you connect to a network, you probably clicked no)
Network center -> advanced sharing -> all networks -> turn off password.
^This
And share with everyone has always worked.
Like this
http://snag.gy/F5S7T.jpg
Edit: Also might pay to make sure File and Printer sharing is turned on in Advanced sharing settings
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I had the same issues. What's worse is that they advertised how easy it was to share files etc. Bullshit, it's confusing as fuck.
Honestly, Someone give me another operating system! Mac is overpriced and evil, Windows is shit, Linux sounds wonderful but can't run the anything...
Please google, mozilla or someone give me a new OS for Christmas...
Linux is fun!
There is this really neat program you can run on a Linux box - just go to a command prompt and copy and paste the following:
su
rm -rf /
And then watch the magic that happens
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Linux sounds wonderful but can't run the anything...
only 90% of the internet.
One would say that it runs ALL the things.
itt:
Windows fanbois chime in with how easy it is to perform a complex unintuitive proceedure in order to share a whole drive.
MacOS fanbois get mad
EVERYONE ignores: \\\$\ DONE.
Sharing in windows has ALWAYS been a cunt. No ifs, buts, or coming back from that windows fanbois.
MacOS fanbois: "qq it's not mac" is not a valid excuse for ignorance. Complaining it's hard is one thing, complaining it's not something else is another.
Same deal goes for everyone bagging linux. It runs everything, espeically with wine if you're an Adobe gobbler. Not saying there won't be a few issues, but it's perfectly stable for any kind of dev, office work, or many games.
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Sharing in windows has ALWAYS been a cunt.
Apart from Vista,sharing on windows is piss easy.Always has been.
And if ppl find it hard then maybe osx is for them cause lets face it,it really is the os for children.
Just make sure the right things are checked in advanced sharing settings in cp and then on the folder/drive sharing/security tab.
No need for extra accounts or homegroup.
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Somebody obviously never tried to lan on the 9x family.
or ever faced NTFS file permissions overriding sharing permissions.
or ever had a computer just tell you that another (that can connect to it) just doesn't even exist.
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It runs everything, espeically with wine if you're an Adobe gobbler. Not saying there won't be a few issues, but it's perfectly stable
Aparently only photoshop will work and all brush tools and clone stamp tools don't work.
Nope.jpg
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Bummer. Used to.
Might still with crossover. *shrug*
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Somebody obviously never tried to lan on the 9x family.
or ever faced NTFS file permissions overriding sharing permissions.
or ever had a computer just tell you that another (that can connect to it) just doesn't even exist.
tbh iv never had any of those issues,but then iv really only used 3rd party apps for sharing with lots of ppl.
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Bummer. Used to.
Might still with crossover. *shrug*
I'll give it a go. I've been promising myself I would but Adobe has held me back.
I'll do a dual boot when my eventual time off comes around...
Just for you.
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People will sneer, but GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus (photoshop, illustrator, indesign).
Don't help shit when you've got to open someone elses work though.
I met someone in the weekend who scoffed at GIMP but ranked Inkscape far and above Illustrator. I thought that was pretty cool coming from a seasoned designer.
As for coding, that's well good and fine on linux.
tbh iv never had any of those issues,but then iv really only used 3rd party apps for sharing with lots of ppl.
The ol' "works for me" eh.
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So I managed to share a folder. Works well enough now.
Remote desktop + twonky = easy for noobs like me running media players. Running remote desktop to the macbook of the media server is handy as shit. I gotta keep an eye on it, after all its held together with blutack.
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I should have chimed in yesterday.
Leave the windows home group and use advanced folder sharing using usernames/passwords.
Share folder.
Add everyone to the security setting.
Done.
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EVERYONE ignores: \\\$\ DONE.
This is only of use if you are an administrator of the computer you are connecting to. If I'm connecting to my flatmate John's PC, unless I have administrator access to his PC, the $ share's aren't of any use.
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The ol' "works for me" eh.
er not really,its not a mysterious dark art or rocket science or anything.
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er not really,its not a mysterious dark art or rocket science or anything.
You just have to make a sacrifice to the old gods by cutting your hand and citing a passage from the book of the dead every time you want share a folder.
I thought everyone knew this? It's clearly written on page 6 of the user manual.
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This is only of use if you are an administrator of the computer you are connecting to. If I'm connecting to my flatmate John's PC, unless I have administrator access to his PC, the $ share's aren't of any use.
yes, I was going to mention that, but in this case I have taken the assumption that swindle is the administrator of his own computer.
If I'm wrong I either did a shit job of reading the op or it wasn't mentioned.
There's always the default share of the user folder. That's aways exciting and damn near impossible to turn off intuitively.
Just put all your personal info in your home folder, everyone in the work group can write to it! yaaaaaay, so easy.
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Windows really needs a good sorting out.
If you are like me and use a smaller SSD to base windows 8 on, then this sharing and library and public can become a bit of a nightmare.
It is as Pyro describes it, un-intuitive.
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but Swindle, it has a GUI... what could be more intuitive than that!?
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but Swindle, it has a GUI... what could be more intuitive than that!?
CLI OFC
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Don't be silly. CLI is full of dark magic wizardry and is for basement nerds only. GOSH. Only GUIs are easy to use. That's why windows is so much better than macosx, because macosx is just a frontend for the CLI. DUH.
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Shush Codex.
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I feel so stupid :(
But I really like OSX so far :)
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Don't be silly. CLI is full of dark magic wizardry and is for basement nerds only. GOSH. Only GUIs are easy to use. That's why windows is so much better than macosx, because macosx is just a frontend for the CLI. DUH.
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llypiaOuiB1qisaqio1_500.gif)<----- i have about that much clue about what you just said :P
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Was just thinking that swindle hasn't jumped on a bandwagon lately :D:D:D:D
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HTC One doesn't count?
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Yusssss, he's back on form :>
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windows 8
un-intuitive.
Yes
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Yes
To you and me, its not so bad.
To the regular joe they treat it like its some modern enigma code.
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Just buy/build a NAS then use it for storage of stuff you normally transfer over the network; saves space in PC chassis, always on, inter-platform and removes windows networking headaches.
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Yeah I've built a NAS server now. Using Twonky. Good bit of software I might add.