No you don't well I haven't anyway and mine worked out of the box to my absolute astonishment !
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| Author: | bubbles [ Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | file sharing between win7 and xp |
right i finally got my new i7 pc with windows 7 my old pc with all my stuff on it (games music, movies etc) is an xp machine my win7 is connected wired to the router and the xp is wireless using workgroup i can see the files on the win7 machine, when i am on my xp machine however, i can not access the xp machine while on the win7 machine (which was the whole point in making the network!) so does anyone have any idea's as google isnt that helpfull on the win7 machine it says i do not have permission to access the xp machine, but i cannot for the life of my get it to work! |
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| Author: | saspro [ Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: file sharing between win7 and xp |
Do you have passwords on both PC's? |
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| Author: | bubbles [ Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: file sharing between win7 and xp |
nope, no passwords at all, just turn on and use |
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| Author: | saspro [ Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: file sharing between win7 and xp |
That's your problem then. You need accounts on both machines with the same name & password to share properly. You can always use the set passwords utility to autologin with that password |
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| Author: | AlunD [ Sat Dec 12, 2009 8:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: file sharing between win7 and xp |
No you don't well I haven't anyway and mine worked out of the box to my absolute astonishment !
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| Author: | lacloss [ Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: file sharing between win7 and xp |
Make sure they are both in the same workgroup . 
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| Author: | bubbles [ Mon Jan 18, 2010 9:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: file sharing between win7 and xp |
i think they are, if not how would i do this on the xp machine ? |
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| Author: | Bluespider [ Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: file sharing between win7 and xp |
On the start menu right click My computer and go to properties (my computer may be on the desktop depending on how XP is set up) Second tab should be computer name, click on that. Workgroup or domain info will be displayed there, you can change the name of the workgroup by clicking change and doing the necessary. |
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