Access files on network drives from wifi ipad

For example... Your at work you left a file on you computer at home. With the iPad you want to be able connect to your computer at home and send that file to you at work. I don't think you can. I know there are apps to send from the iPad to you computer and from your computer to the iPad. But, I don't think you can access your computer hard drive from the iPad and then brows around the drive to find a file and then send it to your iPad.

What you want to do is a remote desktop...nope.

You can use any of the Remote Desktop Connect apps for the iPad (like LogMeIn, Desktop Connect, iTeleport, etc.) to VIEW such files on your desktop/network, but you won't be able to grab them and move/copy them to your iPad.

Actually, I just thought of a way you could do it. Connect to your laptop via one of the RDP apps, find the file you want, and then email it to your self or drop it into Dropbox on your laptop. Bingo. Problem solved.

Try filebrowser mention above. See if that will work for you. I have the GoodReader app and I was to able to open the files from filebrowser in that app.

Follow the directios carefully to connect the iPad to your computer and external hard drives.

Check out an iPad app called "logmeln ignition"

Hope that helps

Andy

Try an app called filebrowser. It's only three bucks so even if it doesn't do the job no big loss.

You still can't do that... You can only send a file from a computer to the iPad. You can't access an external hard drive from the iPad.