password protection

I was hoping to use my external WD Terabyte HD as a webshare/server/online HD. My intentions were to try and set up the harddrive to be accessible by anyone on the internet with ID and PASS. I have looked around and done some research on different ways to write/read on the harddrive. But FTP...

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I have read and followed a lot of posts to no avail. specifically I have followed the advice in "Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP - How-To Geek" and "How to make Windows 7 work with older Windows versions for networking and file sharing" - both machines are in the same...

I'm running windows 7 64 bit version 6.1.7600 Build 7600. I downloaded an Excel file from a trusted site and I can't open it. when I try to open it directly from the website I get messages like it's read-only, or already open, name and path may be invalid, or may no longer exist. Or, I can...

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...

ive been racking my head over this one... i recently upgraded my desktop to win7 pro 64bit.. everything works fine and all but for the life of my my laptop which has xp pro sp3 is unable to print on the shared printer i have setup on my desktop.. this is how its setup.. samsung ml-2010 is...

I am having problems Setting up Password Protected Folders on a Home network.. Hoping someone here might be able to Answer a Few Q's. Info: I have 4 Pc's Acer Aspire Laptop (win7)/ Custom made XFX game Boxes(Win7) / x2 Old Dell Boxes (XP pro) All 4 are connected by cat5 to a Linksys 5-port...

i M myself ADMIN in WINDOWS 7. i DONT HAVE any account other then only this 1 {& pls. dont tell me to make another acc. 'coz i dont like it.} i Want to PASSWORD PROTECT SOME DRIVES & APPLICATIONS. So that without entering password they cant access that drive or that application. For eg : There...

I have two identical computers (Dell Studio 1555 -names: "HOME-Dell1" and "HOME-Dell2") running Windows 7 RC 7100 in a workgroup called "HOME". Both computers have only 1 user: "System Administrator" with the same password. In the sharing setting they have ON the password protected sharing. The...

Hi! I'm having trouble sharing my files between two Windows 7 computers, one 32-bit and one 64-bit but both build 7100. I've got the comps connected in a LAN with a Linksys WRT54G ver. 6 router (updated firmware). The two comps are in the same Homegroup, with the network discovery, file...

I have a Win 7/64 7100 and a Win 7/32 7100. My 64 bit platform set up the homeGroup just fine. My 32 bit Dell Dimension 4700 4 GB ram, after some time, displays the error message "Windows Cannot Setup HomeGroup on This Computer" I ran the networking troubleshooter and the HomeGroup...

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...

Hi Guys This is for Build 7200 only. It might change before the final (or even in the next build which is out but not yet available from "the usual sources". This is also for sharing VISTA<=======>W7 or W7<=========>W7 See bottom of the post for XP computers in the network. The Networking...

I'm posting this question for my sister who just recently purchased a new computer with Vista installed. We set up 3 accounts on her computer. One for her (as admin) and one for each of her two sons. We had no problems setting up the actual accounts, but it would NOT let us set a password on...