lowndsie

I have my spare PC which I want to setup as a file server for main pc. How do I go about doing this? I want the server to be used for file storage and to have connected permanately to the internet.

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Sacrinyellow5

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article...,109710,00.asp

This article might help you out. It helped me out a lot!!

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Motoxrdude

Start>Control Panel>Network Setup Wizard. Run this on all the comps on your network and also make the apart of the SAME workgroup. Tell me if you need more help.

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