"Cynanthis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi Gordon,
> My work is actually my small fam business, (in which only me & my husband
> are a part of this) So there is no personnell there except novice me.
> We own the Laptop, the desktop @ home, & the desktop from work.
> 1= At work, we have Qwest DSL- my laptop connects easily and wirelessly
> 2= At home, I use dial up. For the most part, this pc @ home is just a pc
> that is used randomly (ever since I got my new Laptop)-
> 3= ALL 3 computers have XP home sp2. the desktops, as you suspected, dont
> have wireless installed that I know of.
> I perhaps need to learn termminology. Dont know what you meant by
> "If your desktop is already on the company network, the simple solution is
>> just to plug the laptop into a spare network node at work."
> I dont know if I have anything enabled to be a network. I would like to
> learn how to use my LT to get info off my work pc;wherever my laptop and
> me might be. If you cagive me more info, i'd apprediate it. Or if you dont
> have time, can you send me links where I can learn and read more about
> what I am trying to acomplish? remember my vocabulary on tech terms is
> limited. thank you
OK so just to confirm what I think, you have ONE desktop machine at work,
one laptop that roams about the place, and one desktop at home. You want to
be able to work on files on the laptop whether you are at work or home.
The first thing to do is to set up a network between the desktop and the
laptop at work.
This gets a little bit complicated as there are quite a few variables here.
How do you connect to QWest DSL? Do you have a USB modem, or a router that
connects directly to the Network card on the desktop at work?
If you connect via a USB modem, then the simple answer is to replace it with
a wireless ADSL Modem/Router. That will allow you to both connect a cable to
the Network card in the desktop, and to use the laptop over wireless. That
will give you the facility to share files between the two machines.
If you already have an ADSL modem/router then you have two options. If the
router has two RJ45 ports (like a telephone connector only bigger) then just
get another patch cable (like the one the desktop connects with) and when
you take the laptop to the office, plug it in. (Assuming the laptop has a
network card - most do these days). If the router only has one port, then
the simple answer is to buy a switch with three or more ports, and plug the
router, laptop and desktop into a port each.
Then what you need to do is when you have set up the network, you need to
point the "My Documents" on the laptop at the "My Documents" on the desktop
(or wherever you store your files) and then set up Offline Files. (Look in
Help and Support for "Offline Files" and also have a look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...linefiles.mspx)
What Offline files allows you to do, is to work on files on the laptop at
home, without being physically connected to the desktop, and save them in
the normal manner. When you next go to work and connect to the network,
(whether by wireless or cable), then those files that have changed on the
laptop will automatically be synchronised with the desktop, and any files
you then work on on the desktop will likewise be synchronised to the laptop.
I apologise for the essay, but it's quite on involved solution, and needs
two parts to it - the network to share files at work, and the setting up of
Offline files on the laptop.
HTH
--
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk
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