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I have an external 4 TB I have been successful backing up the first computer to this drive. I have a second computer that will setup a file on the external but comes up with a file error message. now i am finding the external hard drive from the second computer through the first computer through the network.

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Richard, welcome to these public User Forums.

Sorry but I do not understand what actual issue you are telling us about here?

What exactly are you wanting to do and how are you wanting to do it?

What version of Windows OS are you using?

Where are you connecting your external drive, is this just to one computer or are you swapping the drive between two different computers?

I am running windows 10 all my computers are networked.  I am trying  to back up 2 computers to a single external hard drive.  which is connected to computer a.  computer b can see computer a and the external hard drive which has been a signed drive l it will setup a file on the L drive but that is as far as it goes after it runs a few min i get a crc error.

Richard, please download the MVP Log Viewer tool (link in my signature below) and use this to review the log file for your backup operation. This should provide more information on why you are seeing any error messages?