Hi, Pam:
Selective access is certainly possible. We almost, but not quite,
have it working here in the office. <smile> People on this list are
great at helping. But you may need someone involved who can look at
each of the machines and make the proper settings. If you want to
know more about drive mapping, peer-to-peer networking, minimizing
security risks and other networking issues, I can recommend Chapter 7
of the Windows XP in a Nutshell book available from Bookshare. It
quickly convinced me of two things: first, I'm going to enjoy
learning more about how this stuff is supposed to work; second, until
I've learned all that, I need professional assistance if I want a
solution this side of next year. <smile> If you have a professional
help you with the network, look for one who asks lots and lots of
questions about what you want in a general sense and who is willing
to take the time to explain the different options as you make the
numerous choices involved in getting a network to work properly. As
Don Bishop and others have explained, getting the Braillenote or
M'Power to share files with an already-existing network can be fairly
straightforward, after you've learned a few new words and
concepts. I have learned that adding selective access to a network
brings on several additional levels of complexity, which means that
lots more things can go wrong unless they are made to go right.
Good luck.
At 08:30 PM 8/30/2005, you wrote:
That does help actually, and I was just able to set the permissions to
share my music folder. But now having done that, if I go to the other
computers on our network, I can't find it listed anywhere. So now that
I've shared it, where do we access it in the other computers?
Pam
>Hi Pam, If you don't want to share all your files over the network there is
>another way that my brother set up for me. I don't know how he did
it but he
>has set up so everyone on our network can access only one folder on my
>computer and if I want to share files with someone else then I just move it
>to that folder. This might be a harder way to go but if you don't want the
>rest of the family to access all your files it might be something you could
>look at.
>
>Hope this helps,
>>From Shaz.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Don Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:46 AM
>Subject: Re: [Braillenote] file sharing
>
>
>Hi Pam,
>
>Actually, when you connect to the pc, you're only connecting to a specific
>machine. As for file sharing, the only time you could conceivably loose
>data is if the
>machine that crashed were accesssing your machine or vice versa,
and that is
>most unlikely.
>
>Also, when you access your network and a pc in this way, the pc cannot
>access the braillenote, all communication has to come from the
MPower end of
>things.
>
>Don't know about the drive you mentioned in another, but if it connects to
>your pc via usb, it just might work with the MPower. You certainly won't
>hurt anything
>to try it.
>
>Don
>
>
>
>
>
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