On your WinPC system, put the folder in sharing, right click the folder and open menu "sharing and security" and check share this folder.

On the tablet, has to be running 2008Os, open file managers, the last 2 items on the left panel are shared folders and shared media.
Click on shared folders, you see your shared computer, click on the computer you will see your shared folder from the PC. Sometimes the shared folders icon will disappear between dfferent network, you will then have to reboot to see the shared folders. Hope this helps,

bun

Unless your Windows shares are password protected. Then you're out of luck.

Really? There's no provision for entering a password like Wizard Mounter?

No. There is no (GUI) password support built-in to OS2008. Some people have successfully mounted passworded shares from the command line (using "mount -t cifs ...") by using fanoush's cifs.ko compiled for OS2008, but I have not. I only get a cryptic error, and since only the most minimalistic cifs/samba support is available in OS2008, I'm at a dead end trying to figure out what's wrong.

Can anyone help me with my request here?

Weird. Are we talking about with the USB connection? On both my 07 and 08 N800's, I see and can save to/read the memory card (ex: .apt-archive-cache and map) which shows up on the PC as a drive, but nothing shows in File Manager on the 800s until I remove the USB cable - then I see the cards...

No, he means on WiFi network.

When you connect the N800 to your PC via USB, the PC sees the memory cards as removable drives, and the N800 can't see them again until you unplug.

I did a few checks on the Windows network in the office today to confirm the capabilities of OS2008 in an environment with a bunch of different Windows shares. This is what I found:

- The OS2008 File Manager sees the shared folders just fine and can access files from them.

- It turns out that everybody has turned off the username/password checking on all our commonly-used shared folders because it was such a pain in the butt to manage with Windoze.

- Some of our networked systems don't show up at all, but I can find them in Windoze using a computer name search. The OS2008 File Manager can't see those systems either, and I couldn't find any way to search for a computer by name.

- I created a shared folder on the server with restricted access, and the N800 File Manager sees it under Shared Folders (after a few refresh attempts), but shows the contents as empty (no error message or password prompt).

That's actually no worse than my WinXP notebook: it wouldn't show the shared folders list of the server at all on the first 5 tries, telling me "Access denied". On the 6th try it succeeded with no changes made. For the protected folder contents it just shows "Access denied". Frankly I wouldn't have the patience to get password-protected access working in Windoze, having struggled with it many times before - I'd just turn off the protection if I needed access to the folder, as everybody else obviously did already! A classic example of security that doesn't work because it's too complex to use. Gone are the days when you could just specify a simple password for a Windoze shared resource.

How big is your office? You might want to look into getting a Windows Server or Linux/Samba server for centralized user control. Without it, trying to keep track of users in Windows is indeed a pain.

You can turn broadcasting off so your computer doesn't announce itself to the world; that's probably wasn't going on here.

Small enough to yell across the room if the computer communication isn't working. Hence the lack of concern about security.

I figure it's probably something like that, but if so it was inadvertent.

Guys,

Thanks for all great advise, I've learned so much. I hope to eventually install all the apps mentioned.

I found a great subsitute for the included image viewer. It's Quiver Image Viewer. It rocks! I can basically view photos in many different ways and it even allows me to manipulate the image.

Below I discuss my experience with enabling the USB Host mode and adding more external sd/sdhc cards. Once the new 32gb cards come out I will buy six and have over 190gb of sdhc class 6 memory!! The reason I did this project is that I have a lot of movies, music and files on many cards and I was worried about damaging them as I changed them in/out on the n800. I could have just bought a regular hard drive but the comments from others mentioned it's slow response time and to me the moving parts seemed to be a step back from using sdhc memory. I also was concerned about the punishment that travel does to external hard drives. The USB Host mod will also allow me to add other USB periphials(printers, cameras, etc..). I have an external photo of the setup but I'm traveling and I don't have photoshop to shrink it down to a size that I can upload to this thread(I just uploaded a photo). The whole setup is very tiny. It was a fun project and now I can view and use six cards at once. Sweet.

I was reading a thread called External HD and was intrigued by the success Mara, mplawner, EIPI and others had enabling hard drives on the n800. After reading the threads below I decided to take the plunge! I don't know a lick about Linux, command line, nano, x-term, sudo gainroot, etc.. but I decided to try my hand at following these technical instructions. What slowed me down every step of the way was my lack of programming knowledge and basic commands in x-term.

Threads I used to create an external hard drive:

External HD

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...t=14193&page=2

USB Host Mode

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=4177

How to USB Host Mode

http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi..._using_OS_2008

I didn't want to cut, glue or modify any of the hardware. I did not want a complicated(for me) command line entry and exist in x-term. What I did want was a simple gui based click and load app. I wanted a hardware set-up that was small, light, clean and very fast.

I ended up with a total of six flash drives(two internal on n800 and four external on a powered mini hub) connected via the mini USB on the n800.

As of now I have 64GB of flash card memory! It is very fast and very stable. I can watch my movies from the external memory cards in media player. It uses very little CPU and most importantly the self powered hub seems to take some of the battery load off the n800.

Below is a screen shot(I hope it loads properly on this thread) of the n800 screen with all six cards activated.
The whole setup can fit in my shirt chest pocket(if I wore shirts with pockets)

Please bear in mind that I will probably have a hard time helping others technically(but others well versed in command line please help me to answer any technical questions), but I can comfortably answer questions on equipment, prices, etc... Have fun!!!!!!!

My next project is to move the n800 os2008 to my internal memory card. If anyone has done this successfully on an n800 using os2008 and can advise me on how to do it solely from an n800 without an external keyboard and no other computer to flash then please help me. I had the Nokia store in NYC flash the os2008 onto my n800 two weeks ago so it is ready.

The n800, this community and maemo are absolutely amazing!!! lol, Dan