I have a wireless network set up on several computers, and was wondering how I would go about accessing a file on one system from another. Let's say a document on the kitchen computer, and I want to work on it from my laptop in my bedroom. How would I do this? I tried just punching in the IPs listed in my router's DHCP client log, but that didn't work so obviously this is more complicated than I thought... I am running Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, but all the other systems are still running Windows XP. Thanks for helping!
Hi, Caffiend. This actually belongs in the Windows Forum, but I'll answer here. Perhaps the mod of this forum will move it so that you might get other input.
If simple file sharing is turned on already, go to the machine that has the data you want and right-click the folder in question > Sharing and Security to bring up the properties dialog. There are two setting that need to be turned on: Share this folder and Allow users to change my files. Once that's done, go to the computer that you want to work on and Explore "My Network Places". The new folder should be there.
If you have not yet turned on simple file sharing (it's ususally on to share printers) you just run the network setup wizard again and this time tell it to use simple file sharing.
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