Help - Home Networking Issue

[Spoonman]

On my home network I have the following,

My PC (win7 Ethernet)

My Lappy (win7 WiFi)

Missus' PC(XP Ethernet)

Xbox360 (WiFi)

On my PC I can see and communicate with all no probs, I can access files on the missus' PC and my lappy.

From my missus' PC i cannot see any files on my PC nor my lappy, lappy im not concerned but all my music is on my PC and the missus want to access it.

What have I missed ??

[welo]

I assume you can ping your PC from the lady's PC?

Try to access the file share on your PC using the IP address, e.g.

\\192.168.1.31\music

Sometimes NETBIOS name resolving is not reliable.

Btw, did you use the Windows 7 homegroup thingy or create a network share 'manually'?

welo

[Supernova]

Here's a simple checklist:

1. Make sure computers are in the SAME workgroup.

-- The following settings apply to Win7 --

2. Make sure Network and Sharing Center is configured as "Home" or "Work"

Note: If the network group is set to 'Public', your Windows 7 system won't be seen by Windows XP machines on the network.

3. Turn off Password Protected Sharing.

4. Enable Network Discovery.

[Spoonman]

Welo yes win 7 homegroup.

Supernova done done and done.... Xp machine still cannot see my win 7 machine.

[sammycic]

when i set up the same as what you want to do win 7 help says to change workgroup to WORKGROUP in system properties>computer name on the XP machine.

hope this helps. actually in win7 help tells you how to do it. mine works well in both directions. my problem is win 7 will not see my dreambox connection but no problem to see it in my network places on the XP machine in view workgroup computers

Edited April 23, 2010 by sammycic

[sammycic]

also just remembered did you allow everyone when you shared the file in win 7