Webcam network install

[karona]

I'm moving stuff off an old computer, reinstalling apps on a new machine. The computers are on the same network. I need to install the webcam on the new machine but I've lost the driver disc. Can I use the found hardware wizard and tell it to search the old machine for the drivers over the network? Logic says 'yes' and if I was at home I'd just go ahead and try it. If the answer's 'no' I'll just buy a cheap webcam on the way home.

Any ideas?
Thanks

[lestag]

karona said:

I'm moving stuff off an old computer, reinstalling apps on a new machine. The computers are on the same network. I need to install the webcam on the new machine but I've lost the driver disc. Can I use the found hardware wizard and tell it to search the old machine for the drivers over the network? Logic says 'yes' and if I was at home I'd just go ahead and try it. If the answer's 'no' I'll just buy a cheap webcam on the way home.

Any ideas?
Thanks

The hardware wizard can search the internet for drivers. It is unlikely that pointing to the \\oldpc\c$ will work, unless you copied teh drivers there in hte first place

[karona]

OK, thanks, that's what I was afraid of. I's an old, generic (read cheap) webcam, so I'm unlikely to find the manufacturer's site either. It's a 100Km round trip to the web-cam shop, so it's a no-brainer really.
New web-cam it is.

[lestag]

Here's a thread on a few webcams
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Arese]

It might work, give it a try. When it asks for drivers try pointing it at \\oldpc\c$\windows\inf. It might keep popping up asking for other files, and they should be somewhere on the old PC, maybe \windows\system32 or something like that.

[karona]

What I did was copied the old pc's entire Windows folder to an external hard drive, then told the new hardware wizard to search that for the drivers. It worked fine, I can capture an image in the one application that matters, although I don't have the other web cam utilities that came with the original install.