network sharing

I normally have acronis do a complete clone of my drive daily. If I bitlock the drive and then try to clone, will the clone know the key & work perfectly or not? If not, is there a way to get this to work? Can I access the bitlock drive from another computer on my peer to peer network with the...

Sorry; re-posted this threat to the appropriate forum (Windows 7 Networking). Please reply there. This one can be deleted by an administrator. _____________ I have 3 desktops with W7 and I successfully set up the homegroup with all three turned on and running. On each computer, I selected...

Hey, i got Win 7 Ultimate and my printer is plugged on my other computer (Windows XP Pro) and i want to share it. When i try to detect it with my account (Administrator) the printer is detected and works fine but as a standard user the printer isnt detected. I have tried to enter the information...

Greetings everybody! This post shall be about the strange new networking policies introduced in Windows 7, expecially concerning the Network Location Awareness Service, which, at the moment, tries to make my life a fair bit more difficult than it needed to be. Let me introduce you to a...

I just installed Windows 7 and set up a secondary drive to share many folders including music, video, pictures, etc. and want to be able to view or listen to this content on my PS3. I set up sharing by creating libraries for each media type in WMP12 and set the sharing and security permissions...

Ever since I upgraded to Win 7 now I am unable to share my USB connected EPSON printer. Administrative events show the following errors: The print spooler failed to share printer EPSON Artisan 800 Series with shared resource name EPSON Artisan 800 Series. Error 2114. The printer cannot be used...

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...

Hi all, Since today i'm new with windows7 ultimate x64, i had XP pro x86. I had my xbox running as a mediaplayer (with XBMC), I all configured it today in windows 7, but it doesn't work... Xbox keeps asking for username and password (in XP it was not needed). I checked the advanced options...

greetings all have done clean install on freshly formatted drive ( win7 premium upgrade from amazon ) now unable to connect to internet device manager shows: ..other devices: - ? unknown device...

I recently installed 7 using the student download which was a mess it's self. So my problem is that I can't connect to the Internet. None of the other topics in this section helped in solving my issues. I upgraded from a 32 bit version of vista to a 64 bit version of 7 so this is a fresh install...

It looks like I'm almost there but I'm missing some setting. The computers can see each other, but I can't actually access one from the other. when I try to access the vista computer from the 7 computer, I click on it and it just goes to a blank page. With Vista I can access the d drive on the 7...

Hello, I am currently running Windows 7 RC Candidate (v.7100--32 bit). I am having some strange issues recently pop up with the use of my Realtek RTL8168C gigabit NIC Card. I have been running this O/S withhout issues for the last 3 months. But just recently I have had connection issues...

I have installed Windows 7 (the trial version) As a users I can see all the drives Ok, but when other users log on (they are set up as administrators) they cannot see 1 of the drives (the G drive) I have shared the drive, then the other users can see the drive as part of the network, but not as...

I do not use printing , fax or network sharing. Would it be safe to say to uncheck these Screenshot below. Thanks.

In comodo, Windows7 system is listening for port 139, I have comodo to block System TCP Listening:139 as I feel there is no problem with blocking it and has no affects blocking it. I have net/bios, network sharing firewall/ics print spooler etc services disabled. How come it is still trying to...

Greetings all, I'm running the Windows 7 RTM and I've been recently getting this error in Firefox while trying to save images/files: "You don't have permission to modify files in this network location." These are files that I'm trying to save to local disk. Once this error message appears, a...

Great forum everyone! Many of the responses have helped me a lot. This situation is a bit different so I decided I needed to post this question. There are 3 active PCs in this house. My wife's PC still has Win-XP on it. My workstation has Win-7 v7100 RC 64 bit and it runs very well indeed. My...

Installed W7 on two laptops and created ad hoc network with Internet sharing enabled. Worked for a few days then stopped. Have tried to set it up again several times to no avail. Any ideas short of a clean install of W7? The host is connecting to the internet via an Option 3G Ultra Expresscard...

So I've been having some major issues with Windows Media Player. I wouldn't really mind, because the general library function works perfectly otherwise and it's perfect with foobar2000, but Windows 7 has a very nice integration with the Sonos music system (UPnP) which allows streaming over the...

I saw the previous thread, but my setup is reversed; I have my Windows 7 computer hosting the printer, and attempting to print over the network from a Windows XP machine. Unfortunately, the Windows 7 system won't let me install the x86 print drivers for this printer (because, of course, Windows...