CHAPTER 10

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Sharing Files on a Home Network

If your household is like many, it probably has a home network with multiple PCs on it, and at some point you’re probably going to want to share files between those PCs.

In this chapter, we’ll look at three different ways to accomplish this:

  • Create or Join a Windows HomeGroup
  • Share an external storage device via a home Wi-Fi router
  • Use a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device as a home server

Before we get into the details of these different methods, it’s worth noting that if you use a cloud storage service to store files online and sync them across multiple computers, you likely also have the ability ...

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