Posted on 06/01/2018 12:56:12 PM PDT by rstrahan
Got the latest update on Windows 10, eliminated the Home Group and ALL networking capability. Trying to force me to use the Cloud. Uh, NO. My stuff is NOT going to be on the cloud. Use Sneakernet first.
Any 3rd party inexpensive networking software or work-arounds that can solve a small office computing networking issue?
I’ve been writing commercial networking and security software for MS since the DOS days, including being on the first dev team to write a commercial firewall security app for Windows NT 3.1 Server, so yeah.
There's no possible way that that's true. You need networking protocols to talk to the interwebs, and if you can't get on the interwebs how will they get your data to peruse? I guarantee you they will not be removing networking from Winders any time soon (never).
They didn’t warn you to bend over and grab your ankles before installing the update?
“Yeah, share the folders and then use UNC file paths.”
Nothing related to “UNC” allowed in this house. :)
Don’t update and you own it.
funny
The latest Windows 10 update crapped my Galaxy notebook’s onscreen keyboard. Thanks, Microsoft.
Linux Mint. Trust me, after the small initial learning curve, you’ll be glad you did.
Agree. I patched Windows 7 with Linux Mint and haven’t had any problems.
Oh good grief,.. hire a kid to set up your network, is is pretty simple. Watch any one of many YouTube videos. The sky is not falling.
Microsoft apparently decided to quit pandering to American Luddites.
Yeah, Spring 1803 screwed up a lot of stuff. Pretty sad, overall. Microsoft knows how to do better.
I am starting to believe they just don't care any more about whether they pull the rug out from under their individual customers.
Windows is all about the Big Companies Using Enterprise Edition at this point.
And the Software Services -- Office 365, etc. User-level Windows will be a subscription service pretty soon.
“Microsoft apparently decided to quit pandering to American Luddites.”
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Are you always this rude or is it just a Friday thing?
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That yielded a 23 gigabyte movie file which I processed with Handbrake (another freebie) into a 720p 4.5 gigabyte MP4 movie, which I copied to my Western Digital "My Cloud" drive attached to my home WiFi router.
Now I can watch that movie anywhere in the house and not have to handle the physical disk anymore. The My Cloud attached storage has a video streaming server built in.
In my experience, the small learning curve is insignificant when compared to the hand wringing, hair pulling, teeth grinding experience of maintaining a windows computer just to be able to boot beyond the Blue Screen of Death.
There goes the “Neighborhood”
Windows 7
“I am SO happy they got rid of that home group garbage. When they first introduced it I was scratching my head about it. It’s such a pain.”
i never even tried to use it: just disabled the services and used plain ol’ filesharing all along ...
It was duplicatively redundant. Why "home groups" when file & printer sharing accomplished the same thing?!
I use “PS3 Media Server” - it is a uPnP/DLNA media server, I host it on a Win10 machine and get push/pull music/movies to any TV in my house. Works with HDMI dongles like Chromcast - use your phone to search the content then send it to the device of choice.
For other files I believe there’s options on Windows for NFS.
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