Network Hard Drive

[Mista Panda]

Ok so i have a 1TB hdd external and i have all my music and movies and what not on it, well i decided back when i was running vista that i would set it up so every one in the house could use it also such as for school and what not, well i upgraded both my PC's to 7 and now no one can access it ive tried creating a new one but when ever i go (or any one) goes to connect to it to listen to music it says "*computer name* not assessable" or something like that, how can i get this back up and running.

 

[NUFAN]

did you change the network or workgroup on your computers that it's set up too?

Or make sure the hdd network ip didn't change, give a little insight on its original setup

 

[Passerby]

did you change the network or workgroup on your computers that it's set up too?

Or make sure the hdd network ip didn't change, give a little insight on its original setup

trying accessing it via its IP in a file browser

 

[Mista Panda]

trying accessing it via its IP in a file browser

how do i do that?

im not savy when it comes to networking

 

[NUFAN]

log into your router and you should be able to pull up a client table (clients that are connected to your router), figure out which name doesn't belong, take that IP address.

Go into Windows Explorer and on top type

\\<ip address>

 

[Mista Panda]

log into your router and you should be able to pull up a client table (clients that are connected to your router), figure out which name doesn't belong, take that IP address.

Go into Windows Explorer and on top type

\<ip address>

ok i logged in if it helps im using AT&T u-verse

idk what im saposed to look for D:

 

[Simon]

ok i logged in if it helps im using AT&T u-verse

idk what im saposed to look for D:

Make sure your sharing the hard drive, then make sure everyone is in your netgroup or whatever its called.

 

[Mista Panda]

Make sure your sharing the hard drive, then make sure everyone is in your netgroup or whatever its called.

i cant find it D: but it cant be that since no one has changed anything

 

[Simon]

i cant find it D: but it cant be that since no one has changed anything

The windows 7 networking is odd...

I would hook it up to one of the other computers maybe?

 

[Mista Panda]

The windows 7 networking is odd...

I would hook it up to one of the other computers maybe?

one with vista maby? i had some what luck with that

 

[ShadowBlade72]

Windows 7 has a built in file sharing thing that should make it really easy to share stuff between computers. It's called Home Groups. If you haven't checked into that yet, I'd suggest you do.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/homegroup

 

[Ric]

OK.

In Windows 7, ONE person has to create something called a "Homegroup".
The others join it with the password it gives you.

Not everyone can have a Homegroup otherwise what's the point?

Also, for this, it's a lot easier just to right click the drive > Properties > Sharing > Click the "I understand sharing without the assistant takes risk" thing > Share all of whatever. For instance, since I share about 2 TB's worth of stuff I share my "D" drive instead of doing the HomeGroup.

 

[Passerby]

i just access the file share via IP than map it to a letter, i find that much simpler than messing with homegroups.

 

[Mista Panda]

i just access the file share via IP than map it to a letter, i find that much simpler than messing with homegroups.

see i tried both ways, the local drive never showed up or win i did get it to it said access denied on the computer i created it on D: and when i did it with a home group my wireless computer wasnt able to connect to it b/c it said it wasnt IPv6 enabled while all my others are D:

 

[NUFAN]

IPv6 isn't even fully in use yet, shouldn't matter.