Windows 7 Networking Problem: XP Laptop cannot see Windows 7 PC - Help!

[zascar]

I have two computers at home on a wireless network - a Laptop on XP, and My Desktop which was on XP but is now running Windows 7.

I had a simple network for file sharing working fine - they are both on the MSHOME workgroup. Upon installing Windows 7 on my desktop, I added it to the MSHOME workgroup. When I go into My Network Places, it sees itself, and also my laptop which is running XP - I can read files from the laptop etc no worries.

However, my laptop cannot see my Windows 7 PC at all. All it sees is itself. I have no idea how, but at one stage it was seeing the Win7 PC, but when I tried to access it it asked me for a username and password - I don't have a password set up - and any guesses I tried failed. Now its not seeing it at all again.

Any ideas?

 

[zascar]

Anyone?

Apparently this was a problem on Vista too, anyone know?
Thanks

 

[iroken22]

Do you have windows XP Service Pack 3 installed? In Service pack three they included link layer topology discovery which is an add on so that the XP machine can see both VISTA and Seven

 

[zascar]

Yes SP3 is installed.

Any suggestions?

Is this not a problem with Windows 7, not XP?

 

[iroken22]

Ok well first thing is you need to have folders that are shared on the windows 7 machine otherwise it wont show up. it was giving you the username and password because if you have shared folders on the 7 computer you did not set permissions for the other computer to access them. Go into the Network and sharing center>Change Advanced Sharing Settings> Turn Password Protection off. That way you wont have to enter a password to access it. If this doesnt help tell me and i will come up with other possiblities.

 

[zascar]

Cool I got it working! Thanks all!

 

[onetimepad]

Ok well first thing is you need to have folders that are shared on the windows 7 machine otherwise it wont show up. it was giving you the username and password because if you have shared folders on the 7 computer you did not set permissions for the other computer to access them. Go into the Network and sharing center>Change Advanced Sharing Settings> Turn Password Protection off. That way you wont have to enter a password to access it. If this doesnt help tell me and i will come up with other possiblities.

Created to say thank you as well.