Picked up a Surface RT on the Black Friday sale, my first foray into Windows 8 world, which I've otherwise been trying very hard to ignore.
At any rate, I had a question. In the Metro "File Open" dialogue, when I select the "Network" option nothing is pre-populated and it expects me to type in the actual machine name, which gets quite annoying after the umpteenth time.
Is there any way to get this to display the list of detected computers like it does on the desktop's File Explorer? And yes, networking is working fine in Desktop and I can "see" all my network machines there, and it also works fine in Metro if I manually type in the name... I just want some way to present a friendly list.
I tried adding a server to the File Explorer's "Favorite" section but this doesn't appear to show up anywhere in Metro. I could probably map to a drive letter, but if Windows 8 behaves anything like 7, that may not be the most reliable method either due to the old "cannot reconnect all network drives" issue on bootup. I'd be happy just to browse like I can in File Explorer.
At any rate, I had a question. In the Metro "File Open" dialogue, when I select the "Network" option nothing is pre-populated and it expects me to type in the actual machine name, which gets quite annoying after the umpteenth time.
Is there any way to get this to display the list of detected computers like it does on the desktop's File Explorer? And yes, networking is working fine in Desktop and I can "see" all my network machines there, and it also works fine in Metro if I manually type in the name... I just want some way to present a friendly list.
I tried adding a server to the File Explorer's "Favorite" section but this doesn't appear to show up anywhere in Metro. I could probably map to a drive letter, but if Windows 8 behaves anything like 7, that may not be the most reliable method either due to the old "cannot reconnect all network drives" issue on bootup. I'd be happy just to browse like I can in File Explorer.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- RT
- Computer type
- Tablet
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Surface RT