share (command)

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Hello, and thanks for watching this video from Tutorial Techie. Today I am going to show you how to share files and folders between two Windows 7 computers using HomeGroups. Windows HomeGroups has made fairly easy to share files with other people on your home network, however there are a few pitfalls that you need to watch out for and all try to point those out along the way. All right let's get started. I'm going to come down to my start menu and click on the control panel. In the control panel under Network and Internet I'm going to click on the link Choose HomeGroup and sharing options. You may notice that I get an error that says "The HomeGroup is not available because you're not connected to the home network". The reason that I'm getting this error is when my computer first connected to this network it asked me what type of network are you connected to; public work or home. I chose public, however HomeGroups cannot be a part of the public network. They can only exist on home networks. You may notice that I also get the link leave the HomeGroup. The reason this pops up is because this computer was previously a part of another HomeGroup. Your computer can be a part of multiple HomeGroups but for demonstration purposes I'm going to show you how to leave a HomeGroup now. I'm going to click on the link leave the HomeGroup and click on the leave the home button. I'll give this a second and now the dialog box will pop up saying you have successfully left the HomeGroup. I'll click on finish and now you'll notice I no longer have the link leave a HomeGroup. Now I need to deal with this error to create or join a group your computer's network location must be set the home. In order to check where your network location is set to, I am going to come down here and open up the Network and Sharing Center. In the Network and Sharing Center I see that this unidentified network or the network that I'm connected to is currently set to public. You can always tell what type of network you have based upon the little icon. Public networks have a park bench, work networks have a tower and home networks have a home. The reason that Windows doesn't allow you to create HomeGroups on a public network is so you don't accidentally share files and folders with people that you don't know. You would hate to go to Starbucks and have a stranger access sensitive documents that are found in your my documents library. I am however on a home network, a network that's in my home and one that I don't mind sharing the files that are in my documents library with other people connected to the network. In order to change my network location I'm going to come back to the HomeGroup settings and click on the link what is a network location. Under this network location I'm going to click on the home network button. Now that my network locations properly been set I will be prompted to create a HomeGroup. On my HomeGroup I'd like to share everything pictures music videos documents and printers someone to make sure that all of those checkmark boxes are checked and I am going to click next. I will now be given a password and be prompted to write it down. The reason I'm given this password is because all other computers on this network will be required to enter this in order to join the HomeGroup. This password is a little bit difficult for me to remember though and there is a way to change it some going to discard this password and change it. The way that you can change the password for the HomeGroup is by clicking the link change the password. I will click on that link and click on the button and change the password. I will be prompted to give a new for my HomeGroup. I will go ahead and type in a password that's a little bit easier for me to remember Pa$$w0rd. I can click on next and now will prompt me to write that password down. This password, Pa$$w0rd, will now be required for all other computers that want to join the network that I just created. Well that was easy. I just successfully set up a HomeGroup on computer number one. Let's head on over to another computer, computer number two and try to join the HomeGroup that I created on computer number one. You can see that computer number two, like computer number one, thinks it's on a public network. I need to change this in order to join a HomeGroup because HomeGroups can only be accessed on home networks. In order to change this I can click on the link HomeGroup in the Network and Sharing Center. When I access the HomeGroup settings I noticed that this computer was also part of a previous HomeGroup. Your computer can be a part of multiple HomeGroups however I don't want this computer to be a part of any other HomeGroup besides the HomeGroup that was set up by computer number one. So I am going to leave the previous HomeGroup by clicking the link leave the HomeGroup and clicking the button leave the HomeGroup. Perfect I've successfully left the previous HomeGroup. Now I need to join the HomeGroup that computer number one set up. I still have to deal with this error to create or join a HomeGroup your computer's network location must be set to home. So I am going to click on the link what is a network location and click on home network. Just like on computer number one I will be prompted to create a HomeGroup. However I do not want to create a new HomeGroup, I want to join the HomeGroup that already exists on this network. So I am going to close out of this dialog box create a HomeGroup. Right now it says there is no HomeGroup on this network, but I am going to give this a second to refresh and perfect. Now it says John Sterling on VPC1 which is computer number one has created a HomeGroup on the network. In order to join this HomeGroup I'm going to click on the button Join Now. When I click the button Join Now I'll be prompted to decide what I want to share with other computers running on this HomeGroup. I want to share everything: pictures music videos documents and printers so I am going to make sure that everything is checked. I will go ahead and click on next and I'll be prompted for the HomeGroup password. This is the password that I created when I was setting up the HomeGroup. For me I changed it to Pa$$w0rd so I will type that in and click next. Alright perfect, it says I've successfully join the HomeGroup. I am going to click on the finish button, give this a second, and I now it shows me all of the things that I am sharing on this HomeGroup: pictures documents music printers and videos. Now that I've join the HomeGroup lets go ahead and try to share something. I'm going to open up my documents library by clicking on libraries and double-clicking on documents library and I'm going to create a new text document by right clicking, going to new and clicking on text document. I will name this text document, this is computer number two. Let me open up this text document and I want to see if computer number one can edit this document, so I will go ahead and ask the question can you edit this doc? Let me go ahead and save that document by going to file save and I can close out of this. Let's head on over to computer number one to see if we can access that file that was created by computer number two. I see right above computer there's a button called HomeGroup. You can access other computers that are part of this HomeGroup via that button. You can also access other computers via the network button. I have actually had difficulty in the past accessing them via the HomeGroup button, but I've never had difficulty be of the network button So l'll go ahead and click on network right now and all of the computers that are part of this network will appear. I see VPC1, which is computer number one and VPC2 which is computer number two. I also see media devices. Because both computer number one and computer number two are sharing videos and pictures they are considered media devices. If I double-click on VPC1: J Sterling it would open up in Windows Media Player and I would be able to access all of the videos and pictures that computer number one is sharing. Because I want to access a document on computer number two, I'm going to double-click on VPC2 which is computer number two. I see a users folder so I will double-click on the users folder and the user that sharing the document that I want to access is JSmith, so I will double-click on that user, double-click on my documents, and there it is! That's the document that I created on computer number two and you can clearly see that I'm on computer number one. All right, let see if I can view this document. I can, now let's try to edit this document. I will go ahead and type in this sentence, let me try. I will go to file save and this is interesting, I get a save as dialog box that pops up. That normally doesn't happen when I go to file save but whatever, I will just click save yes and I get the dialog box that pops up that says access denied. The reason that access is because by default HomeGroups are read only which means that other computers on the home network can access your files but they cannot modify those files. If I would like other computers on the home network to be able to modify my files I need to click on the Share With button scroll down to HomeGroup read/write and click that. Now all users that are a part of this HomeGroup will not only be able to access my documents that are in my documents library but they will also be able the modify those document's. It's important that you give read/write access sparingly because when you do all other computers that are part of this HomeGroup will be able to modify the documents that are in the library do you shared. For demonstration purposes I'm going to change the documents library on computer number one to read/write and I am going to create a new document by right clicking going to new and clicking on text document. I will call this text document this is computer number one and let me go ahead and open and edit this this document can you edit this? I'm going to ask that question to computer number two. Let me save this document and close out of it. Now let's switch back on over to computer number two to see if we can access that file and edit it. So I am going to click on network, click on VPC1, which is computer number one, click on the users folder as soon as that pops up there it is. I see the user that created the document jsterling so I will double-click that. Open up the My Documents folder and there is the document that was created on computer number one and you can see that I am accessing it via computer number two. Let me go ahead and open this document and it says can you edit this. I will go ahead and say yes, computer number two can edit this. To be able to prove this I will go to file save, and I didn't get a dialog box that said access is denied, it just saved. Let's switch on over to computer number one and when I open that document it says yes computer two can edit this. Something else you should know is that note is that not only can computers modify the contents of the document, they can also edit the name of the document. I will prove this by opening up the document that was on computer number one, this is computer number one, clicking and I can go ahead and rename this. I will go ahead and type then I can even rename documents. Now let's jump back on over to computer number one and you will see the document that was previously called this is computer number one is now called I can even rename documents. All right, now I have successfully shared files between two Windows 7 machines using HomeGroups. If you're having difficulty doing this it might be because your computer names are the same. In order to check this click on the start menu right-click on computer and go to properties. Under properties you'll see the computer name. The computer name for computer number one is a VPC1. If I wanted to change that I could click on change setting and click on the change button. You see computer name VPC1, right there, I could change it just by entering something into that dialog box. If I did, a computer restart would be required. If I jump back over to computer number two, I can check this computers name the same way by going to start menu right clicking on computer clicking on properties and I can see computer name right there is VPC2. If two computers on the same network have the same name they will not be able to communicate with one another and you will have all kinds of network conflicts. So if you're having issues, it's very important you check the computer names and make sure that they're not the same. Well, that is going to do it for the tutorial. Hopefully you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!