Yeeha! It’s sorted – finally both my computers can view the workgroup and each others shares! I have restarted my laptop and it still works, I’m too scared to restart my desktop and see if it still works though lol. Seriously, I can see it not working when I start up next time which I am really dreading.
Still for the moment I need to focus on other things. I am moving my printer over to my desktop as a the moment it is an extra wire on my laptop and this way I can just run it as a network printer to my laptop via my desktop. I am also thinking about doing the same thing with my external hard drive although once I get my new hard drive (250 gb Seagate, ordered today) I am going to use that as my storage drive and use my external hard drive as a backup drive I can take with me when I go home or whatever.
I really want to minimal the things attached to my laptop so I can pretty much to plug it in to my network cable when I get here and use it with all the network or I can take it away without having to detach a million cables.
The other thing I need to do is set up remote access to my desktop so that when I am at home and all my files are here I will be able to access them. It will still probably be limited by the transfer speed of the internet but I will still be able to get the important files like word documents and website code which I need.
Stuff like my emails and things are going to be staying on my laptop anyway as these are things I am going to need wherever I am and I am going to be going between Bod and home or wherever I am so I need anything I need with me always to be on my laptop. Then the other stuff goes on the desktop.
There are a few solutions for remote access I am thinking off, the main contendors are VNC and Citrix. VNC is good and free, I’m not sure if Citrix is free but the school of computing at uni use it so it looks pretty good.
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