Accessing surface from another machine

[Digital Moe]

Has anyone been able to access the Surface from their Windows machine? On mine it shows up under network but when you try and access it it tells you that it can't access the device and if you run the troubleshoothing wizard it tells me that everything is configured properly.

From the surface I can browse all the network shares that are on my machine so I open files and even copy them.

So I thought maybe I should create a share that I can use to dump files on to the Surface with. But if I create a folder on C and select properties there is no option to set up network sharing.

Any ideas?

 

[VagrantWade]

I do not believe you can.

 

[Digital Moe]

That is a shame as it incredibly fiddly trying to select multiple files without the keyboard unless there is a gesture that I haven't yet sussed.

 

[VagrantWade]

That is a shame as it incredibly fiddly trying to select multiple files without the keyboard unless there is a gesture that I haven't yet sussed.

Well you can always just grab the files from the other machine on your surface. That's what I've been doing.

 

[NickA]

I have no issues accessing my c$ share from the Surface, but it's like the Surface doesn't let the outside in. I tried changing permissions and sharing settings, but it didn't help. The only thing I didn't try was setting up a homegroup and giving it a password.

 

[meathead88]

The resolution to this is to set the "server" service to "automatic". The server service controls sharing. Go in to the desktop, explorer, right click my computer and then click manage. Expand services, find the server service and set to automatic or automatic with delayed start.

 

[VagrantWade]

I have no issues accessing my c$ share from the Surface, but it's like the Surface doesn't let the outside in. I tried changing permissions and sharing settings, but it didn't help. The only thing I didn't try was setting up a homegroup and giving it a password.

They do not want people connecting in. For security.

 

[meathead88]

Read my post above and your troubles will fade away

 

[VagrantWade]

Read my post above and your troubles will fade away

Hot damn I didn't think of checking the server service. I assumed there wasn't one in RT.

Added the everyone user to permissions and now it's golden! Thanks

 

[shn'g]

Thanks for the tip! This type stuff is so helpful and saves me so much headache!

 

[meathead88]

No problem! Glad to contribute. These forums are awesome!

 

[VagrantWade]

Make a how to enable sharing thread so more people see this.

 

[meathead88]

Make a how to enable sharing thread so more people see this.

Done