Sharing Files Should be as Easy as Sharing Dessert
If you didn’t know better from experience, you’d think that you just share files the way you share dessert; you ask your brother if he wants half your ice cream sundae. There’s no debate, or pause to read directions – and you definitely don’t have to ask twice.
Sometimes, sharing computer files can seem more difficult than quantum physics. Take a quick look at how you’re supposed to share files in Windows XP, in this article from Microsoft’s Help and Support page:
“Through the Simple File Sharing UI, you can configure both share and NTFS file system permissions at the folder level. These permissions apply to the folder, all the files in that folder, subfolders, and all the files in the subfolders. Files and folders that are created in or copied to a folder inherit the permissions that are defined for their parent folder. This article describes how to configure access to your files, depending on permission levels. Some information that this article contains about these permission levels is not documented in the operating system files or in the Help file…”
And that’s just the article’s introduction!
But that’s not Microsoft’s fault, exactly. It’s always taken technology a long time to become sophisticated enough to live down to our low expectations – and even longer for writers to demystify the process. Which is why Network Magic came along in the first place.
Er, not that we want to live down to anybody’s low expectations. Rather, we set out to make things like file sharing (and printer sharing, and the whole home network setup thing) really simple. Without using acronyms, abbreviations or complicated terms.
Our Network Magic product which is a home networking software tool for setting up and managing your home networking. The concept is about following ultra-simple, easy steps in plain English– so you can immediately share any file with any other computer on your home network, simply by adding that file to your shared folders.
To quote our own marketing blurb, “All of the complicated steps to set up file sharing in Windows are eliminated.”
It’s as simple as that. Um. You gonna finish that ice cream?
Posted by Johanna Fry at 11:02AM PST
Johanna Fry
jyothiprakash Sep 3, 2009
Never thought that there could be more to file/print sharing in Windows, than what MS offered.
For me, everything was fine upto Windows XP. But with Vista, things had changed drastically….As an experienced Windows system software developer, I faced issues while trying to share/access files on the network - So I could very well imagine the plight of home users.
Network Magic seems like a great product (Long overdue)(Something that I always dreamed out when the vista error screen started frustrating me). I can look forward to not having to spend most of my phone time with parents back home, trying to explain file sharing and home networking!
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