Wireless File Sharing

Ever want to transfer files wirelessly from your desktop to your laptop or vice versa? Let me show you how its done.

Most likely your home network has a desktop, laptop, and a wireless router. Your desktop is hard wired into the router and your laptop is wirelessly connected to the router.

Instructions:

1. On the desktop computer, choose a folder that you want to share. If you want, you can choose to share your entire C: drive, but I would not recommend doing so. In any case, for this example lets just share your "My Documents" folder.
   


2. Right click on the My Documents folder and select Properties.
   


3. Select the Sharing tab and look under the Network sharing and security.
   


4. It might tell you to go through some wizard, but just try to enable the sharing without going through any wizards.
   


5. Check "Share this folder on the network" and "Allow network users to change my files" boxes. If you check the 2nd box of allowing network users to change my files, you must be very careful. By checking this option, you will be able to change, move, or delete files on your desktop computer from your laptop. If you delete files located on your desktop from your laptop, there could be no way of recovering these files.
   


6. In the Share name field, type in something descriptive like "my documents on my dell desktop", then press ok. Thats it for the desktop computer.
   


7. On the laptop, go to Start button then Run. Type in "\\yourcomputername". In otherwords, replace yourcomputername with the actual name of your desktop computer. You can find what your computer name is by right clicking on My Computer and selecting properties. So for example if your desktop computer name is called "dell510" then you would type "\\dell510".
   


8. A window should pop up and you should see the shared folder. That it! Now you can move files back and forth. Or even open up and change files located on your desktop with your laptop. All wirelessly!