Waldo Pepper wrote: > Hi > > On my old W7 laptop I used to be able to type 192.168.1.133 into the > toolbar on Explorer and see the contents of the drive plugged into the > Touch and use this for adding more music albeit slowly over WiFi. > > On my new laptop it switches to Firefox and tries to open a Web server > which I know the Touch doesn't have and FF complains as such. > > Anyone any ideas on how to sort this. Nothing has changed on the Touch > settings between my old and new laptop. > > TIA.
In order for a windows machine to "see" the SMB share on the Touch it has to have the same workgroup name. The Touch uses WORKGROUP (which was the default for older windows versions). Windows7 is primarily using Homegroup which is something different. To easily see the share on the Touch you have to set the workgroup name on your Win7 machine to WORKGROUP. This is what I found on the net to change that. Control Panel --- System and Security --- System Click 'Advanced system settings' Click 'Computer Name' tab Click 'Change' Type desired workgroup name Click OK Reboot John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95577 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
