Hello, basically, we are setting up an office for our not-for-profit inside of our home.
What we want to do is set up a home network that lets us share files between our three computers.
(A) One is a desktop, our main computer, connected to our Verizon FiOS router via
Wi Fi. It is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit.
(B) The other is an older desktop, connected via Cat-5 hardwire to the router. This computer is Windows XP Media Center Service Pack 2 (and it’s giving us a lot of problems, we may be wiping the hard drive. If we do that we’ll upgrade it to SP3) It is a piece of junk.
(C) The third is a laptop, which is sometimes connected to the router via WiFi and is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit. It leaves the house and office a lot, and we want it to have the files when it’s not on the local network.
We plan to follow the instructions here, and set up the network the way they explain
http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php...haring_Network
But, we have several questions.
The first one is, where do the files ultimately become stores? Let’s say I make a shared folder on computer A, does the information become COPIED to computer B and C? Or is the information permanently stored on A, and it’s just being copied to B and C?
If it’s the latter, then would I have to pick one computer to always be on? And would the laptop be able to have those files if it left the house?