network access

Hi. I have a little problem that is driving me insane. I have looked and looked on the net and through these forums with no luck. First, let me tell you my network setup. 1x Laptop with XP pro (using wireless) 1x Desktop with Win7 Ultimate (using wire) 1x DSL/WiFi router/modem combo (ISP is...

I KNOW this is going to be dumb as soon as somebody tells me what it is, but: Windows 7 64-bit system. I want to be able to work with files in a regular directory on a Windows 7 disk from a Windows XP Pro laptop. I made the W7 disk sharable, and gave everyone full access. On the xp system I...

I just loaded my desktop machine with Win7. While it was an XP machine I was able to share with all computers including Macs in my house by setting everyone to the same WORKGROUP. I connect the desktop to a WiFi router via Ethernet cable and all others connect via WiFi. I have turned on file...

I have a HP pavilion dv9917cl laptop. Nvidia Geforce 7150M/630M Integrated ethernet adapter, Nforce 630M. Updated to Windows 7 32-bit from Vista 32-bit, custom (start from scratch) install. Initially my ethernet adapter showed up in Device Manager as Nforce Networking Controller, not working...

I have 5 hdd drives,( g, e, f, h, i, k) each with a movies and tv shows folder in each, i have made a TV shows library and a movies library that includes folders from 5 drives respectively. when broswing to my Windows 7 machine via the network, i see.. Movies1 Movies2 Movies3 Movies4 Movies5...

I recently tried to share a folder located on a secondary harddrive on my computer running Windows 7 with another computer on my network which has an XP installation. When I go to add the network place, it prompts me for a username and password. I tried every account that my Windows 7 computer...

I recently switched a netbook computer on our LAN from XP (on which all machines had been) to Win 7rc (x86). No other settings or configurations on the network have changed, but the netbook suddenly can't fully connect to the Synology network drive. All the other computers on the network still...

[Just to state, I'm using an Asus laptop with Windows 7 RC version, 64-bit. Duo 2.0 GHz processor, 4 gigs of RAM, 512Mb of video ram] That's how it started, after I left the homegroup I created. I used MMC to change the owner back to my login name, and gave myself permission for everything I...

Hi, I have 3 computers, W2K Server, 2 x Windows 7 64bit (laptop and desktop). From the laptop I can access the C$ share on the 2k server. From W2kServer I can access the C$ share on the laptop From Desktop Windows 7 I can access the C$ share on both server and laptop But I cant access the...

Hi, I have encounter a problem, I have a host A: windows7 RC 7100 another host B: windows 2000 server,sp4 I try to access B's shared folders on host A, using unc path. But it always give an error message: Logon failure: unkown user name or bad password. I have added B's computer name...

I have a media gate 350 and I can not see the shares on my windows 7 system. I can access vista shares fine and vista can access the windows 7 shares. The guest user account is turned on, the guest user has access to the share, I have tried turning off the firewall. I have looked at a lot of...

With my old Windows XP PCs I used to access the files using the hidden network shares (i.e. c$). I am trying to do the same with the Windows 7 computers but am getting asked for a login. I have set password protected sharing to off but am still getting asked for a login. I tried the login I...

okay windows lovers, this is how i got windows 7 to accept incoming connections from XP so you can view files on the W7 computer from the windows XP computer: THIS IS AFTER YOU HAVE SHARED THE FOLDERS AND FILES OF YOUR CHOICE! 1. unjoin any "homegroups." 2. make sure your connection is...

I have a lan pleiades hdd connected to my router. I have no problem networking with this external hdd with vista and xp. when networking with windows 7 i cant not network with this device. in windows 7 i can see the lan external hdd in the network folder but cant access. can connect to this...

Hi all. I'm having problems accessing a shared drive on my Vista machine upstairs. Win7 laptop sees the PC in the network but when I try to access it, it won't accept the username and password. Does anyone else have this and/or fixed it? Cheers Vorm. Worked around it. Just in...