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    Windows 7 Windows 7 cannot "see" Win XP on home network.

    I have a small home network of 2 XPs and some linux PCs. One of the XP PCs ( XP1, say ) has a printer. This printer is shared on the network and works OK. I've recently added a Windows 7 PC and made it use the same Workgroup as the others for networking purposes. All the Windows PCs can ping...
  2. Windows 7 Cannot Re-Assign Network Type in Network & Sharing Center

    This is REALLY cheesing my butt. I'm not a newbie; I'm proficient in the installation, use, and administration of over thirty different platforms, and in 2003, I became Microsoft-certified in Windows Networking. Each successive release of Windows has seen more and yet more control removed from...
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    Windows 7 Windows Updates, WNDR3700 USB HDD no longer shows up

    I have a Netgear WNDR3700 router (v4) which I got a couple of months ago to replace my dying router. It comes with a ReadyShare USB to Network device portal which allows me to hook up a USB HDD and use it as a network drive. The speeds aren't all that fast, but, for my current purposes it suits...
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    Windows 7 Win 7 Network Map blocked on 32 bit Pro

    Does anyone know why one laptop cannot be placed in the Win 7 network map? The troubled machine is running Win 7 Pro, 32 bit, and has the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) enabled in the wireless adapter. View from Asus P8P67 running Win 7 Ultimate 64 Bit Link Removed This is the view from...
  5. Windows 7 Not Connected to Network (But I Am)

    I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 installed. I noticed the other day that while the Network Connection icon in my system tray looks fine, if I click on it I get a notification that I am not connected to a network. The issue is that I am connected to my network and the Internet. Link...
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    Windows 8 Issue with Network Infrastructure and Network Map

    All I am trying to display the network map in Windows 8 and I get the error message that is attached. Could anyone figure out how to display the Network Map? I had no issues in Windows 7. Thanks Grim
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    Windows 7 How do I allow access to two computers from each other?

    I have two computers - both in the same Homegroup. They both show up in my network map - but I don't know how to allow access to each from the other one. Also, I have a networked printer which does not show in the map. Shouldn't it? It works from both computers.
  8. Windows 7 Anyone have knowledge of info contained in attached Network Map?

    I was exploring the other day and came across the information shown in the attachment. I am not having any problems, but just wondered what it was for exactly and if there was another way to find or alter the information contained. As you can probably tell, I had a full network map made and...
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    Windows 7 Connecting Windows 7 Ultimate to XP network

    Ok ive got the same issue and still no connection or detection of the xp network... I can ping and find all of the computers via the Command Promt without issue... Network detection and the network map however do not find any of the xp computers or the one legacy computer running windows 98...
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    Windows 7 unusal network map/bandwidth issues

    I have 2 W7 PC's; the good one and the bad one! Let me say at the outset that on both my bios & all my drivers are up to date! I have yet to establish a cause but the bad W7 crashes around start up 3 times per week on average. I suspect that 1 of the two 500Gb RAID discs is the culprit and...
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    Windows 7 Network Map Annoyance

    My main PC is HP d5000t Windows 7 Ultimate. I've noticed that the network map doesn't work properly. I have 2 real PCs with XP home SP3 and Virtual machines with Windows 7, Vista and, XP Pro. The only way the network map works is if my old Dell is running Then everything shows on network except...
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    Windows 7 All computers show up on Network Map but can't access them

    I have two HP Pavilion desktops runing Windows 7 and one HP Pavilion notebook using XP. I have set up HomeGroup on both desktops and downloaded the LLTD responder on the notebook. Both desktops have network discovery turned on and file and printer sharing turned on. The first desktop network map...
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    Windows 7 Share with specific people doesn't work!!

    Hi: I have two Windows 7 PCs. I use PC1 to create a homegroup and have PC2 to join the homegroup. I followed the video posted on Microsoft website and thought it would be easy to share a folder between two PCs. After I did all that, I can see both PC-1 and PC-2 under full network map (PC-1 and...
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    Windows 7 Error message: "Windows cannot access //desktop

    I'm running Win7 on my laptop (Pavilion), wireless; have access to internet & my home server. My desktop (Acer) is running Vista; network printer is connected to desktop; the desktop machine can access the internet, and my laptop, and my home server. From my laptop I can ping my desktop by...
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    Windows 7 Win7 / XP home network problems: wrong router / firewall issues

    I have a WIn7 laptop and an XP desktop connected to a Linksys wireless router (WRTG542); the laptop has two network connections: a wireless connection (when I move it away) and the lan cable. The desktop only has a lan cable connection. But there are problems: While both computers can see...
  16. Windows 7 Computer only detects 1 of 3 networked machines

    Having trouble with one computer on my network. I have 4 computers in the network, 2 desktops, and 2 laptops. 3 are running Win7 Home Premium, 1 is running XP sp3. 3 of the computers have no trouble accessing the other machines. (one of these is the XP machine). But my desktop machine (Win7)...
  17. Windows 7 Help with network connection

    Hey everybody, Ive been using Windows 7 since the R.C. and I've been having this problem since I started using it. I figured someone would have the same problem and I would be able to find it somewhere, but I haven't been able to find anything that fixes my particular problem. To sum it...
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    Windows 7 Windows says I am not connected to a Network - BUT I AM!

    I am having an extremely frustrating problem. I recently upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista, which I had no problems with. Now Windows shows that I am not connected to the internet. The wifi status indicator in the tray has a red x over it. When I click to choose an available network, it says...
  19. Windows 7 Damn you, Microsoft

    Whenever I think about how Microsoft is trying to present networking in Vista and Windows 7, I get so angry I can't even formulate a proper post asking for help. I mean, what with all this crap about homegroups and public/private networking, having several different ways to go about setting...
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    Windows 7 Help setting up file sharing?

    I have build 7000 installed and cannot get it to share files with any of my other computers running Vista. I can see both in the network tab but if I try to access it from my Vista machine it says" Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer." The...