Can I make it so my laptop and desktop can both access the same backup harddrive via my home wireless network?

It seems possible. By the way, both my computers are running XP. And I've got a print server and my Tivos on the network too, if that matters.

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Yes, either through shared folders or through NAS There are a couple of different ways. If the hard-drive plugs directly into a computer, you can then use Windows Printer & File Sharing to share it with other computers on the network. The other option would be to attach the hard drive to a specialized Network Attached Storage device.

There are a few out there for sale, but I must admit, that I've never used any. I always use File Sharing on my home computer. From the drive properties under Explorer, you can set sharing, though it will warn you about sharing a whole hard drive..

In principle, yes It depends in practice upon how your network and backup drive are each configured. Most networks have everything in the same subnet and have ~complete visibility within that and then have a router/internet gateway of some variety over on the side. With that config, if the backup drive is in or at least connected to one of the computers, getting both computers to connect to it is fairly easy (just share is and poof!

It 'should' work). However, if it's not the case (maybe it's stored in a safe most of the time? ) it's a bit harder.

But in general, things should behave similarly enough to how they do on a wired network that you should be able to do it fairly easy so long as the drive is connected to something with a NIC. Sources: Managing wireless networks before .

Share a folder on that Disk! Share a folder on the disk and then you can access it from both machines .

Share the drive If you share the drive over the network, both should be able to see it. I'm not current on XP's file-sharing tools, so I can't provide detailed instructions, but there should be a share option if you right-click the drive icon.

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