workgroup

Very weird, but I can't see the computers on the workgroup in Windows 7 Home Premium. I know it's not the network, because I ran a 3rd party network diagnostic tool that shows me ALL the NetBios names and IP's of all the computers in the workgroup. I can also ping the IP and NetBios name...

Fixes an issue that occurs when you run an application that calls the gethostbyaddr or getnameinfo function to obtain the names of computers within the local network. This issue occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. Link Removed

Hi, Setup is other PC use a username and password to access user C:\Users\Public\Folder. I have no issues when win 7 PC connect. I can see the win 7 machine in workgroup network and am able to ping the win 7. However Vista PC throws out the basic Access denied. Thanks in advance for your...

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...

Hi All, I have a Windows 7 computer setup as part of a domain. This computer also has file sharing enabled. At the moment, any computer on the same domain can connect to this windows 7 share. (Which is what I want) However, any computer NOT connected to the domain (even connected to a workgroup...

I recently set up a file & printer sharing wired networkbetween 2 Win 7 computers, The printer works fine and I can see both computerson the network window on each computer but when I try to access it I get thefollowing message (Windows cannot access \\ computer name\c. You do not...

VXP will not connect to LAN, but will connect to Internet. In VXP: Explorer- My Network Places: I can expand this out as far as the workgroup, but trying to expand the network to workgroup machines causes Explorer either to give up or cease responding. Going the other way, from another...

Hello, I am planning to redo my small office network. Right now every computer is connected through a workgroup and some computers are sharing files to everyone and some need a login to share other files. I want to run a main server where all the files are on that computer and have it share all...

I've read through these forums and tried to do everything I could to make it work but I cannot seem to get it connected. My XP network is an existing network and I am trying to add a windows 7 64 home edition machine. I can ping back and forth between all of the computers using IP and comp...

Greetings, First of all I apologize if someone has already postes this matter. I am new here. I am contacting you about a problem I recently noticed. Today when I opened windows explorer, under the Network tab I noticed a new unknown computer called VALI-PC. I do not have wireless internet, I...

helloo i have Lan, all computers are windows 7 proffisional and one machine is windows 2003 , workgroup . i made shared folder in windows2003 , some computers can access the shared folder and others can not. when i open network , i see the 2003 computer, when i try to access it , it asked for...

Hello, I've added a new laptop to my home network (now 3 computers, all of them with win 7 ultimate 64) . I didn't use home group because i don't like it, so i configured everything manually and everything worked great, file sharing. printer sharing, everything. And then I added a...

Help! I've been searching all over for solutions and can't come up with a fix. I've tried this (Link Removed - Invalid URL) and this Link Removed and this How do I get round Windows 7's file permissions? - Microsoft Answers and this Link Removed - Invalid URL but I can't seem to get it to...

I am having trouble connecting from my work Win XP (Pro) desktop machine to a new work Win 7 (Enterprise) desktop to sync my work files to it. The XP PC can see my personal Win 7 (ultimate) PC that was upgraded from Vista Ultimate. Win 7 to Win 7 is ok. I have read and followed a lot of posts...

The computer name of my Win7(64b) Desktop is called "AVA". For the purposes of debuging, I've disabled AVA's LAN adapter and connected it to the network by enabling its Dlink DWA556 wireless adapter. The attached system config file represents this decision. In addition to AVA I have 3 other Win7...

With the computers networks that I install I need all computers to be able to see each other. With XP this is simple. All I need to do is have the same user name and password and workgroup name at each computer. I also create a share on the C drive to all. Then when I go into network places...

I have two Windows 7 Home Premium machines on the same network, and in the same workgroup for the benefit of an XP machine. For the moment, though, only the Win 7 machines are important. I do not have a homegroup set up at the moment (doing so does not change anything.) For the purpose of this...

Hi, I have two computers running Windows 7 Ultimate. They both connect via a Router, one wirelessly and one wired. They are both on the same workgroup but I cannot for the life of me get them to network with each other, either via opening up Explorer or by connecting them both to the same...

Here's the issue. I have 4 computers (3PCs and 1Laptop) on a home network (not a homegroup). All are connected to the same workgroup. All share the same internet connection. Up until last week, all of them had absolutely no issue sharing files or using the printer. Now however, my laptop...

I have reset firewall settings to default on all three computers. Win7 Pro only sees other Win7 PCs and not a router-shared drive nor the XP, and yet the Win7 Starter and Win7 Home both do. All have same workgroup name. Any suggestions on how to remedy this would be greatly appreciated. Thank...