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| Hi there,
I currently have a laptop running Vista Home Basic (probably going to upgrade to Ultimate) and Im about to buy a new desktop (If I upgrade my laptop to Ultimate I also update the desktop to Ultimate)
I am wondering how I can network them together so that I can;
- Share user-accounts
- Share files (read, save, write). These files are read/save/written onto the desktops hard drive
- Sharing internet is not a problem but if I need to share the internet to laptop through the desktop (or vise versa) it doesn't matter
- Share programs
How would I do this? I can use cable to connect them but I would like my laptop wireless so that I can move about the house with it. The desktop will not have wireless (Dell told me that their desktops don't come with wireless)
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I would like to be able to access this from the web so that when Im at school or away I can connect on the web to my network and download/upload/edit files. I can supply hosting and domain names to do this (I have alot of experience in web design (programming and designing) and also abit of experience in non-webbased coding languages. Also familiar with Windows OS's. Though I am not very experienced in networking so I need some help)
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I am also thinking about installing a Mac OS on the desktop but this doesn't really need to be networked to the laptop so I think I'm fine there but anyway, is it possible to network a Mac and Vista together? I got a feeling you can't...
Thanks for reading and hopefully you can help me!! If you don't mind when you reply can you just state what the paragraph is about like I have because there is quite abit there.
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| You can't share accounts because each account is unique to the host machine. You can share specific directories resident on each machine, but that's not the same as sharing a single account across machines.
I think what you're looking to do basically can't be done -- share an account between the machines such that whichever machine you're logged into, you have full and complete sharing with the other machine.
What you can do is remote access into the second machine from the first. Then once in, you can run apps and manipulate files inside the second machine. You can consider that "sharing" if you want, but it's probably not what you were intending.
Google for information on Remote Access to find out what's involved. There's a LOT involved in setting up the second machine to allow remote access from the first. The same amount of work is involved if you want to remote access into the first machine from the second.
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| My school has it so that any user account can be logged in from any computer in the network. The network shares everything that a single computer can do (eg; sharing programs, files, printers, scanners etc...)
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| That's remote login and is a service generally provided by Servers.
Your machines are not servers; they're clients.
You would have to run a server machine, and then be running Windows Server OS (or some other server OS, like Linux, with Server SW, like Apache), in order to provide the features that you're mentioning.
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| | Yes, that is correct. My school is running their network off Servers but can't I make my desktop a virtual server? |
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| Basically -- no.
Your desktop is running a "client" OS, not a "server" OS. You can do SOME server-related things like file sharing and remote access, but you can't turn a client OS into a server OS.
Of course, you could try installing VMWare, and then installing Windows Server 2008 inside of that, but I doubt that would work because your other machine(s) would then need access to the "virtual" server -- which I doubt they could get.
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