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Win 7 networking appears to me to be way less friendly than WinXP networking. I have been networking multiple WinXP computers for years so I have some experience. While not a total noob, in all honesty I would not classify myself as "expert" by any means. I recently converted my (3) desktop...

A: Windows XP (32 bit) Computer service pack 3 with NIC card I: Windows 7 Professional (64 bit) NIC card Connected by a cat5 cable. Computers A can and I can ping each other, the sent and received are seen on the status panel of the appropriate machine I seems to send and receive more data than...

I have a Windows 7 Desktop mainly used as a server to store files and I have a Windows 7 Laptop used to mainly access and store files to the desktop. I do not use homegroups because I find that workgroups work better for what I am doing. I have researched hours and hours on forums and googling...

Hi! Need help joining a new 7-computer to old workgroup (static ip's, IPV4 etc..) which consists of old xp and 7 -machines... The problem is, that it is impossible to get a new 7 machine to recognice the old xp-machines in network -if there is even a one "old" 7-machine connected when first...

Windows 7 computer hard wired to network. All is well. Can see the other computer and mapped drives all connect. I have the need to move the computer so I unplug it and turn on the wireless. Finds network, internet up, but no computers and mapped drives won't connect. I started a workgroup...

I have 2 questions, I am migrating an XP workgroup to 7. I have two new 7 machines, one sees all of the other computers on the network, the other one only see 1/2 of them. On the machine that only sees 1/2 of them, if i search with a Link Removed i can see them. Does anyone know why one...

plzzzzzz help me hurry my job as administrator network in my company there is no server so we are using workgroup network the problem is how to setting client acces server not use password but the other client acces server using password plzzzz help me

Hi all I have in the past joined my pc to a domain(for lab practice) and now I simply wish to log on locally to the machine. In the past on the log on screen with XP we have the choose domain then log on locally this computer option. Now I am presented with no such option in 7!! I can...

I have two Window 7 peers hard wired thru an SMC. I'm not using homegroups. I can see the public shares on Peer 1 from Peer 2 and similarly I can see the public shares on Peer 2 from Peer 1. However I can't see drives (my storage drives) on Peer 1 from Peer 2. The opposite is also true. Get...

Hi all, Recently installed my new Linksys E1000n and having one heck of a time getting my LAN setup. I installed the Cisco Connect software on my Windows 7 system, which is connected directly to the E1000. Have internet access there. I also have a laptop that connects wirelessly to the E1000...

Hello: trying but unable to do: -w7pro to connect (cat 5e not wireless) to my home C/S w2K network, so that I can access files at a wXPproSp3 pc. I can connect to that same XPproSP3 PC from another XPproSP3 PC, and from my OS X.5 mac (using smb). I can connect from the w7 laptop to a shared...

I drew a little image to better explain how everything is set up. Link Removed - Invalid URL JILL and MATT can see each other and access each other's files without needing a password. JILL and MATT cannot see PRINTERSRV, but PRINTERSRV can see them. PRINTERSRV can access JILL's files with a...

I am not sure if this has been answered elsewhere... I am only finding information about networking windows xp / vista / etc to 7 computers. I have 2 desktops and one laptop running 7. The desktops are running 7 Pro and the laptop is running 7 Home Premium. Originally I had a printer hooked to...

Hi, I have done searches for this, but everything just seems to point to basic folder sharing :frown: I have 4 computers on a LAN (workgroup), one of them is a "server". All are running W7 Ultimate. I want to make a folder on the server shared only to MY computer account, so that nobody else...

Help, PLEASE! I work in a small business office and my computer is the main one everyone else is networked to. Had XP but I have a new computer now with Windows 7 and I am having trouble getting the network operating so that people can print to my printer. Everyone can get online, but not able...

I am having trouble with shares. I have three machines running Windows 7 Pro all in the same workgroup and on a Work Network. On PC1 I have created a share with Everyone with Full control on the Share Permissions tab and then a user with full control on the Security tab. However the user is...

Hi all, I started using Win 7 about a month ago and initially everything worked fine with getting on our network at work and accessing other computers, a mixture of Win 7 and XP. Everyone uses a cable connection and fixed IP address. A couple of days ago I was at another office and needed to...

I'm running 64Bit Windows 7 Ultimate using IPv4 and want to map a network drive to my Windows 2008 server. I've tried both mapping to the "default admin shares" i.e. C$, D$ as well as creating my own shares with full access rights to the "administrators group" to which I belong. However...

I am trying to add my Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit computer to an existing network that has XP computers. I have the workgroup of all computers set the same. I have network discovery on, file and printer sharing, 128 bit encription set, password protection off and use user accts and passwords...

This laptop can access the internet and ping itself and the gateway, but can't ping other computers on the network. I am not using "HomeGroup" nor do I wish to. I had VMWare Workstation 7 and Comodo Internet Security 5 installed, but have since uninstalled them. I have the windows firewall...