This question is long and has been written about much in many strings in this and other forums. None have worked for me to date.:cool: I think that the issue may be that the provider of answers to these other similar questions seem to assume that the overall setup of the machine in question...
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We have a small netwrok with one workgroup. We recently added a new machine running wn7Pro 64-bit. We had to fiddle for days with it just to make winXPpro and win2kPro workstations and their drives visible to it. That should be out-of-the-box automatic functionality, but it isn't because Win7Pro...
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I have two Windows 7 Ultimate computers and around
10 Windows XP (Home and Professional, SP2 and SP3) computers trying to connect
to it. It's just a LAN (no internet access).
I have set all of the
password-protected sharing off on the Win 7 systems. I have tried opening up ALL
of the...
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Every now and then I will "lose" all of my network drives. Ending explorer.exe and reloading it always fixes the problem. Does it forget about my drives or something?! :o
I have seen this once before in my life with XP, but since moving to 7, it has been a semi-regular occurrence (once a week...
Hello all:
I've found several others having the same problem as I on this and other forums but no answer yet.
I have a home network that includes an XP-based home server of sorts. I hang my Drobo off that server and share it to my home Network. On all my other PC's I access it as my "N" drive...