scoobyster

I've got two desktops with wireless cards talking to an ADSL Router and getting net access successfully, but I've never managed to file swap between the machines, although we can play networked games.
Presumably I just need the right software, can't find netmeeting for the life of me. Both machines running XP Home. Any straightforward ways transferring a few files? Surely it can't be that tricky a task..?

Cheers,
Ben

scoobyster

Ah, just found Netmeeting for download from MS. I'm sure it wasn't that easy to find the other day... Should be alright now hopefully.

brett555

Did you say you're using Netmeeting to share the files now ?

thanks.

scoobyster

Well I was hoping to, but haven't got it working yet. The download I found was 'Netmeeting Resourse Kit Wizard', but that just seems to be a tool to configure Netmeeting, so not much use without Netmeeting itself which I still can't find. I believe that's what's required though.

JackClark

Are you sharing any folders on the machines?

what would scooby do

.. as jack said - you need to be enable file/print sharing on both and share folders..

sti555

do it the easyway..

make sure both computers are members if the same network, right click my computer>properties>computer name (assume you on xp/2K)

then set up a newrok share folder on each 'puter, right click on folder you want to share or even the root of the drive, specify a username & password, right click on folder, then sharing or security.

Done

scoobyster

Right, I'm getting there folks, thanks for the advice.
Haven't really the time to fiddle too much this evening, I'm in the middle of uni exams.

I've discovered that MSN Messenger realises you're both on a network, so if you send files through that it bypasses the internet and does it directly through the network. The only problem is you can't select folders to send, just individual files.

Cheers,
Ben