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Bingo!! One of the suggestions in the linked thread said to enable TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper – now up and running. Thanks for all your help.
Happy Days!
As an aside, check out Live Mesh if you want to keep two (and more) PCs in sync. I was pretty impressed, especially given the service is still in early development. Allows folder sharing, remote connections,etc.
Sorry to ask further questions on this. At the moment I am using a network to view files/folders on my desktop/hard drives connected to it on my netbook. Next week I am away and was wondering if it would be possible to have the same set up – obviously not over the network via wi-fi – but via the internet. Where I am staying has free wi-fi so it would be rude not to use it.
So would it be possible to have the same kind of set up where I can play films etc over the internet that are on my desktop and not have to copy them over first? Does this make sense?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi again Jeepers. Ok – I pinged both machines with 100% success rate. If I do the run command I get the message ‘No network provider accepted the given network path’. This happens on both machines.On my desktop when I share the folders it works fine – but on the netbook I get the message ‘An error occured while trying to share (folder name). The server service is not started. The shared resource was not created at this time’.
Any further ideas?
[/quote1242462230]On your netbook click Start > Run and then enter services.msc
That will open the services console where you can check and adjust the startup settings of all services.
Locate the Server service and check it’s startup type – is it set to Auto or is it set to Manual or even Disabled?
If you right-click the Server entry and then Properties you can set it’s startup type to Auto which is likely to be what you require.
A complete list giving details of XP services can be found here:
http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htmThat lists the default startup type for services and also whether or not a service can be set to Disabled or Manual startup to conserve system resources.
After installing XP i always go through the services and with the help of the page at theeldergeek.com i set unneeded services to Disabled or Manual startup.
Some common services that by default are set to Auto but can often be disabled are:
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Help and Support – who ever uses the crappy built in XP Help function? (not me!)
You can TweakUI for XP to also remove the Help & Support menu option from the Start Manu.Indexing Service
Print Spooler – of course if you plan to install a printer on your netbook you’ll want to leave this set to Auto.
Remote Registry – who needs this i wonder – presumably no average home user.
Secondary Logon – well worth disabling this if you don’t use the feature, it uses a good few MBs of memory.
Security Center – not advisable to disbale this if you are a newbie but if you’re confident that your netbook is protected then it’s another useless XP feature that you can kiss goodbye to.
Themes – Using the classic Windows desktop? Then you might as well disable Themes too.
I’d recommend though that before disabling any services that you check the page at theeldergeek.com to ensure that you really don’t need that particular service.
And remember that if at some point in the future you make changes to your netbook and have a problem – check that you haven’t disabled a service that is now required.
Martin.
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Sorry to ask further questions on this. At the moment I am using a network to view files/folders on my desktop/hard drives connected to it on my netbook. Next week I am away and was wondering if it would be possible to have the same set up – obviously not over the network via wi-fi – but via the internet. Where I am staying has free wi-fi so it would be rude not to use it.So would it be possible to have the same kind of set up where I can play films etc over the internet that are on my desktop and not have to copy them over first? Does this make sense?
Thanks in advance.
[/quote1242464161]You might want to setup a VPN and allow such an operation but then there’ll be a few problems you need to solve first:
1. You need to fiddle around in your router settings to get some ports forwarded to your desktop.
2. You need to leave your desktop on at all times waiting for your connection
3. Is the UL speed of your home connection good enough?
4. While connected thru VPN, your internet experience won’t be that good, as you’re going thru the VPN tunnel to access the internet connection at home.[quote1242465099=Siddas]So would it be possible to have the same kind of set up where I can play films etc over the internet that are on my desktop and not have to copy them over first? Does this make sense?[/quote1242465099]
Do you have an ADSL connection at home?If you do then your upload will be a lot slower than your download, in this case it is unlikely that you will be able to successfully stream videos. At-least not without reducing their quality considerably beforehand.
For example on Virgin broadband’s 50Mb package it’s 50Mb down but only 1.5Mb up.
Cheers for the swift replies. Hadn’t thought about the upload speed – just checked and it is only 0.4MB – so won’t be worth the effort. I will just load up an external drive with films/music.
Thanks for the help.
one solution could be to try http://www.logmein.com, allows remote access, however I’m not sure you can download a file from the remote PC.
You say you have Virgin broadband, try v-stuff, gives you a remote folder for sharing files.
http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginmedia/vstuff/find-out-more/
It’s probably more likely to be 0.4Mb/s rather than MB/s.
If it was that fast then a 650MB file will take around 30 minutes to upload.
However if it was Mb/s then the 650MB file would take around 4 hours to upload.That is if you upload the file to some remote folder, attempt to stream it or remote login and download directly.
In the end I think,
[quote1242484364=Siddas]I will just load up an external drive with films/music.[/quote1242484364]
this is the best option for media.[quote1242538908=Siddas]
Sorry to ask further questions on this. At the moment I am using a network to view files/folders on my desktop/hard drives connected to it on my netbook. Next week I am away and was wondering if it would be possible to have the same set up – obviously not over the network via wi-fi – but via the internet. Where I am staying has free wi-fi so it would be rude not to use it.So would it be possible to have the same kind of set up where I can play films etc over the internet that are on my desktop and not have to copy them over first? Does this make sense?
Thanks in advance.
[/quote1242538908]Install Orb on your home PC and access any media stored on it from anywhere on the internet!
I have Orb installed on my home PC and can stream videos from it to my N95 – my PC real-time transcoding the large divx videos to small screen 3GP.
Orb gives a selection of output formats – Real, Windows Media etc – so you have a choice of player, it should work on any platform.
Martin.
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It’s probably more likely to be 0.4Mb/s rather than MB/s.If it was that fast then a 650MB file will take around 30 minutes to upload.
However if it was Mb/s then the 650MB file would take around 4 hours to upload.That is if you upload the file to some remote folder, attempt to stream it or remote login and download directly.
In the end I think,
[quote1242484364=Siddas]I will just load up an external drive with films/music.[/quote1242484364]
this is the best option for media.
[/quote1242587688]Ha ha – yes you are right – I did mean 0.4Mb/s – it takes forever to upload anything of size.
Just before I set off this morning I uploaded the Orb facility. Right now I am on wi-fi listening to my MP3 collection on my desktop back home – excellent bit of kit. The video isn’t brilliant – a bit grainy and jumpy. That could be to do with the slow broadband here though.
Thanks to everyone that has contributed.
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