Windows 8 (Desktop) & Windows Vista 32 Bit (Laptop)

PC Bigboy said:

First off - Newbie here so please forgive me if this has already been answered

Anyhow, I seem to be having a problem with gwetting the two to talk to one another beyond Windows Media Player

What I'm trying to do is get the two to basically share ENTIRE DRIVES whereas files from one computer are accessible from the other (And Vice Versa) via Windows Explorer (Which would in essence make them available to other applications since they use the Windows Explorer interface to find & open files anyway)

I've tried connecting the two using Homegroup on Windows 8 (My Laptop not surprisingly doesn't even recognize that) as well as from its Windows Vista counterpart. No dice

I thought I had something going when the two seemed to talk to one another via Windows Media Player but all that led to was a sharing to playlists & other media files (I don't keep my media in those folders. I have NO CLUE why Microsoft thinks ANYBODY does)

What am I doing wrong? Is what I'm trying to do even possible? I didn't have NEARLY as much difficulty a few years ago when my Laptop was new & I wanted to tie in my old (And now JUNKED) Windows XP Desktop PC (The Laptop was the PC I was working from of course)

Any ideas?

Cheers

PC

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