Chrishazle
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I'm helping a friend set up his new desktop PC and old laptop, both with Windows 7 Home. Laptop is for his wife to use for email, games and internet, desktop is his and is the main PC.
On the desktop we've set up just the one account, as an administrator. On the laptop we've set up 2 accounts - friend as administrator, wife as ordinary user. Idea being that wife can't accidentally change anything serious.
Is it possible to set up sharing between the 2 PC's so that when friend is logged into the laptop he can have full read/write access to the hard drives on the desktop, but when wife is logged into the laptop she only has read access? If so, how?? My attempts to date have been unsuccessful - can see both PC's from each PC, but when (for example) I tried to install Firefox onto the laptop from the downlaoded file on the desktop - no joy, so I cheated, copied it to his USB HDD then plugged that into the laptop!
I'm useless with networking, so all assistance appreciated!
On the desktop we've set up just the one account, as an administrator. On the laptop we've set up 2 accounts - friend as administrator, wife as ordinary user. Idea being that wife can't accidentally change anything serious.
Is it possible to set up sharing between the 2 PC's so that when friend is logged into the laptop he can have full read/write access to the hard drives on the desktop, but when wife is logged into the laptop she only has read access? If so, how?? My attempts to date have been unsuccessful - can see both PC's from each PC, but when (for example) I tried to install Firefox onto the laptop from the downlaoded file on the desktop - no joy, so I cheated, copied it to his USB HDD then plugged that into the laptop!
I'm useless with networking, so all assistance appreciated!