I'm trying again from scratch :lol:

Just trying to find the firewall settings for Windows Home group as that seems to be th eonly way to pass login credentials from each computer.

The windows 7 sync centre is a cut above the XP sync centre :)(

I've tried that in the past and it seemed quite good. I'd rather have something that runs in the background like the built in Windows thing. I also need to move my RAID array to a NAS so that I don't have my PC on all the time :)

Probably not much use to you, but once upon a time I had the same issues and just decided to use Syncplicity instead, only problem is that the (server) had to be logged on all the time IIRC so wasn't a good solution but more of a temporary workaround.

Is SyncToy better than the file sync wizard built into Windows?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52&displaylang=en

Been having issues with this for ages now. I have my PC which has a pair of HDD's in RAID for data storage and another HDD for software. My laptop has a single HDD in it for files and programs. I used to map the RAID array as a network drive on the laptop, then I changed the location of Documents, Pictures, Music and Videos in my user storage area to the corresponding locations on the network drive. I did similar on the PC, but locally as opposed to using a mapped network location.

On the laptop I set it so that only Documents and Pictures were available offline using the file sync thing on Vista. I've since upgraded to 7 and tried the exact same setup. In both o/s's I've had big problems getting it to sync correctly. It doesn't seem to like some of the very large files I tend to use and messes up the sync if the transfer speed is quite slow. I let it sync overnight by letting Windows do the operation while the computer is plugged into the mains and on standby.

I've tried using the same setup, but instead of using a mapped network drive I have used the network address of the location I want my files to be stored which has authentication errors as the PC wont accept the login credentials from the Laptop as they are from different domains now.

Is there a more robust way to set this up? I just want my documents on my laptop to be the same as the ones on the PC :lol: Could I use some kind of workgroup file sharing setup, or a domain?