Ow! Pass the tylanol!! Yeah I think I will take your advice and find an expert to help me set this up.
Pam On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:22:43 -0500, you wrote: >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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >___ >> >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >> >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >> >> >>___ >>To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >>http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >> >> >>__________ NOD32 1.1204 (20050829) Information __________ >> >>This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >>http://www.eset.com > > > >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
