Am I opening a can of worms here? WideFS question

[DavidRN]

Hello Pete. Have a quick question for you. I currently run FS9 on an XP pro machine. It is 32 bit. I run FSInn on a laptop that is Vista 32 bit. I want to run the new version of Active sky (ASE) and eventualy REX for FSX and FS9 on the laptop as well. Soon my desktop will have Win7 on it. I thought I heard that Win7 is more favorable to easy network connections etc. I am not very network savy and do not understand the majority of the language in configuring things. I have read your WideFS manual and it is not clear to me what I need to do. Can you for see any reason that WideFS may not work on this small home network? My desktop is hard wired to the router and the laptop is wireless.

Your repsonse and advice is much appreciated.

[Pete Dowson]

I have read your WideFS manual and it is not clear to me what I need to do.

Why is it not clear? I cannot provide instructions on Windows networking -- that's Microsoft's job and they do it at great length throughout the help files and so on.

Install it and try it. If your Network is working and you haven't got firewalls blocking things, and both PCs are in the same workgroup, then it should work with nothing else for you to do -- that's how it is designed, install-and-go.

Can you for see any reason that WideFS may not work on this small home network? My desktop is hard wired to the router and the laptop is wireless.

I hope your wireless connection is good. Wireless links seem to be quite troublesome for many. If the Laptop is near enough I'd recommend using a wire.

Pete