File Sharing inside my home network?

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> <homicanada>

> > I have tones of digital Video/Music stored in my hard drives at home
> > and want to make them accessible through out my house. I put together
> > a Vista (Ultimate) box in basement and mirrored hards and have all my
> > digital files (mpeg2,3,4,..) there.
> > Now I would like to access all those files from other computers (all
> > vista) at home (one is connected already to my home theater. I've
> > search and can't find an easy way to do it. Possible options:
> >
> > 1- Public directory: not much access control. has to be on Main Hard
> > Disk (I have 4 hards on that machine)
> > 2- Media Sharing: Only supports Windows supported formats (e.g. no
> > Divx)
> > 3- Folder Sharing: That seems like the only option. But what it seems
> > I will end up is to share the Whole hard drives to my network. This
> > volume sharing seems scary and also if someone hacks to my network, he/
> > she will have access to all data.
> >
> > All I am looking for is those hard drives to be fully accessible to my
> > Internal (Intranet) network (even without password).
> > Also everything be isolated so no one can get to my Intranet from
> > outside.
> >
> > Any solution comes to your mind?
> >

> I thought is was easy to "sync" files if both computers run Vista, or is it
> that you don't want the same files stored on all computers.
> You can get your machines to "see" the main drive ( it does not need to be
> Public ime) and give it a drive letter by using "Map Network Drives" then
> you should be able to choose which files to open from your main machine on
> whichever machine by simply going to My Computer and opening the main drive.
>
> --
> Regards
> Bob Hobden
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