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***glc*** · 10-13-2006, 09:07 PM

If you have computers connected through a router, just set up networking (file and print sharing) using the XP wizard. Tell it the computer is connected to the Internet through a residential gateway. Do this on all computers and use the same workgroup name on all of them. Plug the external hard drive into one of the computers with USB or Firewire and format it and assign it a drive letter. Then share it, give the share a name such as External. On the other computers, find it in My Network Places, right click on the share, and choose Map Network Drive, check the box to reconnect on logon. Assign it a drive letter there. I do this for customers all the time, it's an excellent way to back up multiple computers, and True Image will work like a champ with it.

I recommend that you make it Drive X on the computer and map it as X on the others for consistency - X for eXternal.

Your other option is buy a NAS box and plug it directly into the router, but those are quite expensive, approximately $1000 a terabyte.

10-13-2006, 09:07 PM	#4
*glc* Forum Administrator Staff Premium Member Join Date: May 2000 Location: Joplin MO Posts: 37,701	If you have computers connected through a router, just set up networking (file and print sharing) using the XP wizard. Tell it the computer is connected to the Internet through a residential gateway. Do this on all computers and use the same workgroup name on all of them. Plug the external hard drive into one of the computers with USB or Firewire and format it and assign it a drive letter. Then share it, give the share a name such as External. On the other computers, find it in My Network Places, right click on the share, and choose Map Network Drive, check the box to reconnect on logon. Assign it a drive letter there. I do this for customers all the time, it's an excellent way to back up multiple computers, and True Image will work like a champ with it. I recommend that you make it Drive X on the computer and map it as X on the others for consistency - X for eXternal. Your other option is buy a NAS box and plug it directly into the router, but those are quite expensive, approximately $1000 a terabyte. Last edited by glc; 10-13-2006 at 09:10 PM.