Want to send files between my two pcs.

Windows 8 networking will not show my partner's laptop and it's way to complex for me to mess around with and try and get to work.

Utorrent is a no go as well.

She can see my desktop though.

I'm looking for free software that would make transfering between our two computers easy.

Dropbox has LAN SYNC. Teamviewer also has a similar function if I recall correctly.

Maybe this one could be of help. Honestly i have never used it, but it should be easy :)

http://www.d-lan.net/

When you say "transferring", do you mean "copying files from one machine to another" or "reading files from one machine on the other machine".

Copying.

Dropbox is a no-go. Some of the files I tranfer are 10 Gigs in size and DB requires $10 a month per 100 Gigs space. Free if you're just sending docs though.

I can now see my girl's PC on mine but I'm still geting some 'Broken Path' error. I'm on 8.1 64-bit and she's on Vista 32-bit

The best way to me seems to figure out why her computer is not showing up. I think the easiest solution would be to establish a home network group which automatically handles most common shareable folder. Details see here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/homegroup-from-start-to-finish

It should work with Windows 7 as well, but I don't know for older Windows. I think the Homegroup system was introduced with Vista.


From my experience with such situations (had similar problems with Windows Vista and 7 in my network) it usually boils down to user rights and user network accounts. Whether you have to create all the same users to have access to every PC in the network or you work it out with the generic guest login. The guest login however is very restricted what it can do and see, and on top of that is sometimes disabled by default which makes working in the network a bit strange. Cleaner solution is certainly to have the user logins that operate in a network on every PC of the network.
The Homegroup system will circumvent this hassle altogether though which is why I would suggest it as a preferred solution.

Bittorrent Sync. The computers in question can be running any operating system, be located anywhere in the world :). Setting it up is trivial as hell...

Is this a LAN? And is this between two WIn8 Computers or Win8 + ??

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Thanks, I was avoiding the HomeGroup option because I did not know it was avaialble in Vista as well.

I'll try Homegroup first and then go for BitTorrent Sync as a last resort.

BTW, on again - This is Win 8.1 64-bit to Vista 32-bit