shared folders

Hi all I have set-up a HomeGroup in my 2 computers network. One wired pc (Windows 7 x86) and 1 wireless laptop (Windows 7 x64) connected through a wireless Dlink router. How can I remove the old shared folders, which no longer exist, from the pc's homegroup. That's folders that had been...

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...

Hi. I have 3 computers under the same workgroup with a Shared folder. Server (Windows 7) User 1 (Windows Xp) User 2 (Windows Xp) User 1 and 2 Have the shared folder as a mapped network drive. Now what we need is: inside the Shared folder there is another folder called Admin which I only want...

Hello! I have two computers with windows 7. Desktop is connected through cable and laptop through wireless connection. I want to share files on desktop. So I have right-click on e: and y: on desktop and set them to be shared. I see them and I access them with my laptop except for +mp3...

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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Hi, I'm having problems getting windows7 and xp to network. I've searched and tried most solutions that have worked for others but still having problems. I have 2 xp (32bit) laptops, wireless connection. 1 Win7 (64bit) Desktop direct connect to wireless router (WGT624v3 firmware...

Simple yes but I have failed to reconnect the computers after install of McAffee from AT&T. Both computers are seen in the McAffee application but not in the homegroup. McAffee says the other computer has not been invited yet. I have the ip address of both in the approved network section of...

Ok I have 3 Pc's running Win 7 Premium. A laptop, a gaming pc and a media center pc. I have gone through each computer and shared my documents so i can move around video files/pictures/music to any pc from any pc, but for some reason I can't do it between all of the pc's. I can see the...

I have a server (windows server 2003) that has shared folders on it and also handles internet and dhcp. there are 21 computers connected to the network all ranging in OS from mac os 10, xp pro, and many different versions of vista. all the computers use the same user name and password to...

I'm hoping someone can demystify my issue here. Scenario: - I have a file server running on Windows XP Pro we'll call it XPServer - I have two windows 7 Pro PC's, that we'll call 7Office and 7HTPC. It took me a bit to figure it out, but the windows 7 help file told me in order to call a shared...

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...

win7 on my laptop can access remote desktop on my xp server. i then installed win7 on my server. then without doing anything to win7 on the server i can connect for about 5 seconds then it times out. It will only stay connected for a few seconds. the remote desktop screen goes black, and...

Hello everyone... I really have a problem to access my files in a Windows 95 share folder with my Windows 7 Ultimate... - I can access all network share with my Windows 95 - I can access all network share with my Windows 7 (except win95) - I can access Windows 95 share with all my XP or Vista...

Hi, I have a problem with my network folders for my dad's pc. His pc is what I primarily use to download software and such so I just network his folder so that I can gain access to downloaded files w/o going through other medias such as a flash drive etc. Problem is that when a file is recently...

Hello, At past, I had two machines running on windows xp with share folders connected with a router 'BRL-04UR'. Recently, one of the os has been changed to windows 7 and another remains windows xp. Howerver, when I want to setup the share folder, I find problems. At windows 7 machine, it can...

I have my 7 cp connected to my xp pc and they are on the same work group. I can connect through windows media player but when i go under networks it is in media devices along with my xbox 360. how to i make it so i can browse shared folders and share printers? i have tried using this recourse...

Have two computers, one is a tablet running Vista on a domain network, the other is my desktop running W7 on a home private network. I was FINALLY able to connect to my Desktop shares but only by typing the IP address of the Desktop shared folder from the Vista tablet. Both computers can see...

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 had a running network with XP being my main computer. After upgrading to Win 7 my shares are not accessible. There is one thing that I do on my home network I don't use any passwords for my user accounts. So if my main computer running vista has the main user/administrator called John, then I...