Novice: 'TRANSFERS folder' disappeared

[Terry Pinnell]

A year or so ago my son installed a Wireless Router/LAN on my XP Home
PC, and I regret not paying more attention to the details of how he
set it up! One feature was a folder called 'TRANSFERS' on my desktop.
It allowed me to occasionally transfer files to and from a W98 PC I
have in my workshop. Haven't used it for many months, and now I've
just noticed it's no longer on my desktop. Somehow I must have
inadvertently zapped it, maybe when I installed an additional HD, or
perhaps by deleting some 'unwanted' XP Services or something like
that. The only clue I have is that I made a shortcut to it in my Send
To folder. The link's Properties show the 'target' as

\\Terry\transfers

But if I use 'Find target' I get
"The drive or network connection that the shortcut 'TRANSFERS on
Terry.lnk' refers to is unavailable. Make sure that the disk is
properly inserted or the network resource is available, and then try
again."

BTW 'Terry' is the name of this PC.

I'd be very grateful if someone could tell me how to recreate this
folder please.

 

[Guest]

\\Terry\transfers is called the UNC path, which is the path to the network
share. This should point to the location of a 'share' on the remote
computer. So, first make sure that the remote folder "transfers" is still on
the computer named "Terry" and that it is shared correctly.

The theory here is that when you place files in the \\Terry\transfers
folder, they will be placed on the Terry computer in a folder named
"transfers"

FE
Wm P
MVP | MCP | CCNA | A+

 

[Terry Pinnell]

\\Terry\transfers is called the UNC path, which is the path to the network
share. This should point to the location of a 'share' on the remote
computer. So, first make sure that the remote folder "transfers" is still on
the computer named "Terry" and that it is shared correctly.

The theory here is that when you place files in the \\Terry\transfers
folder, they will be placed on the Terry computer in a folder named
"transfers"

FE
Wm P
MVP | MCP | CCNA | A+

Excellent, thank you!

Armed with your advice I made a new folder, Transfers, and in its
Properties under Sharing I enabled 'Share this folder on the network',
then Apply.


It failed initially with the message: "The shared resource was not
created at this time. An error occurred while trying to share
Transfers. The Server service is not started."

But on re-enabling that, the folder is back. I have yet to try it out
in anger to/from my shed cum workshop PC, but I'm confident that
should do it.

BTW, meanwhile, I had made one other alteration to my settings after
finding this page with advice about LANs:
http://www.une.edu.au/itd/help/settings/lan-xp.html

The only setting I had to change, to conform exactly to that advice,
was to 'Untick LMHOSTS', which was previously enabled. Is that OK, or
should I now recheck it please? I see here
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/LMHOSTS_file.html
that it's defined as
" Specific to Windows, the LMHOSTS file is a plain text file (without
a file extension ) that tells your computer where to find another
computer on a network. The file resides in the Windows directory, and
it lists the computer names (NetBIOS ) and IP addresses of machines
you access on a regular basis."

That leaves me uncertain...

 

[Guest]

The LMHost file is really not needed. In fact, I prefer to use the Host file
instead if I really need DNS Name resolution. Make sure that the Computer
Browser and Server service are both started in your Services window (Start >
Run > services.msc (OK))

Just so you know, Lmhosts works with Netbios names, while Host uses DNS for
name resolution. DNS is the preferred method. If you wish to know more
about Netbios, you can read a page on my website regarding this technology:

http://65.24.134.81/KipSolutions/NetBios/netbios.htm

Pretty dry reading, but it covers it well!

FE
Wm P

 

[Terry Pinnell]

The LMHost file is really not needed. In fact, I prefer to use the Host file
instead if I really need DNS Name resolution. Make sure that the Computer
Browser and Server service are both started in your Services window (Start >
Run > services.msc (OK))

Just so you know, Lmhosts works with Netbios names, while Host uses DNS for
name resolution. DNS is the preferred method. If you wish to know more
about Netbios, you can read a page on my website regarding this technology:

http://65.24.134.81/KipSolutions/NetBios/netbios.htm

Pretty dry reading, but it covers it well!

FE
Wm P

Thanks, appreciate that helpful follow-up.

 

[Guest]

You are welcome, Terry....

Happy computing!

FE
Wm P