Network sharing files

[aussie8964]

Hi I have my daughters computer networked to my computer.
I have on my computer a few movies that I have backed up using Dvd shrink. I am trying to copy them to my daughters machine. I have managed to copy one over and it took about 10mins. Then after that
when I tried to copy another one over it took 50seconds initially then it comes up with 850600 minutes to go till it has finished copying.

Why is this so.

My machine is a
pentium 4 e.06ghz
768mb ram
64mb video card
running windows xp

My daughters machine is a
pentium 3 800ghz
256ram
64mb video card
running windows 98

Any help would be appreciated.
If I could get her dvd rom to work then I would just use dvd shrink on her machine to backup the movies, but its not reading the dvds.

[mujahid7ia]

How are they networked? Through a router? Are the NIC cards 10 or 100 mbps? etc etc

[DVD_Ripper]

I have three servers here at work and often I will move 30, 40, 50 gigs of data from one server to another ... or from a server to a laptop. A lot of data has to be calculated in order for it to accurately determine time to completion. Often when I start it will say 300-400 minutes... and soon drop to the exptected time... 30 to 50 minutes but it will still jump back and forth from 40 to 100+ minutes depending on what the machines are curently doing.

If you move your mouse you use your cpu and memory and you can notice a slow down in your xfer and an increase in anticipated time.

[presto]

Try rebooting each computer before the transfer.

[pyscrow]

how are the computers seeing each other? and what OS do they have?
how are you doing the copying?

All of these are important as each variation can have little quirks.

Assuming your daughters machine is not an XP box, and yours is, the most reliable method is to map her drive on your own XP box, and then use a command line "Xcopy" to copy it. Then if it fails part way through the copy you can just rerun the command line and it will restart from where it left off, not recopy it all.


Here is an example of how to log your daughters C: as Y: on your box
(assuming your daughters box is 192.168.0.3, and her drive is shared)

net use y: \\192.168.0.3\c /persistent:no

then use
net use y: /delete
to disconect

heres an example of a command line xcopy that would then do the job
xcopy c:\movie\*.* y:\movie\backup /s/e/c/h/r/d/i/y

this will copy all new and changed files in main and sub directories