Will, have you checked your firewall settings? Can you ping one system from the other? What 3rd party security software do you have or did you once have? Do you have the same user account and password on both systems? I hope it made you feel a lot better to vent, because statements like "XP simply works" just make you look silly In virtually all the ways that matter, Windows 7 is simply a better OS than XP ever was, even service packed 3 times.
In the lion's share of the cases it's far easier to set up, and unlike XP can just run forever stably. It's way past time to drop that ball and chain. I have as much or more history than you, and it sounds like I have a few years more with Windows 7. I predict you'll figure out what you've done wrong, bop your head, then go on to find Windows 7 is something you really like. Firewall settings were among the first items I checked. The user accounts in use are identical across all three systems, with identical passwords.
All are administrator accounts. The McAfee firewall settings are identical. McAfee does its own network thing, and interestingly, the McAfee network includes all three systems.
Whether any kind of work or home group is involved seems irrelevant. Real life kind of intruded recently, thus there has been no time to spend on this project. As far as me looking silly, so be it. That XPPro system does what I need done, with little fuss nor bother. To see that system run stably for 30 days is very common. Its workload starts before 8am, and between 9am and pm it is working hard running several different charting packages which utilize real time data.
That system also runs Outlook, various browsers, and whatever else I throw at it as need be. It gets hibernated very late each night, and brought back up by 7am each day. That XPPro system simply works, day in and day out. I was finding that XPPro was proving much more stable that was Vista, fwtw, and certainly easier on resources.
Win7 may yet prove as reliable and stable and useful for my needs as has XPPro, only time will tell. As far as me looking silly, I am happy looking silly all the way to the bank. Am I the only person in consumer and small business land who is in no hurry to toss what has worked quietly, calmly and reliably, for years?
There are more of us across many different vertical industries than MSFT would prefer, to be sure. In all seriousness, I've been hearing nothing but bad things about McAfee lately. Honestly, I'd try removing that and seeing how things go. We have three machines, desktop running XP, and two laptops running Windows 7. Applications that rely on the network fail between the two. Haved wasted a weeks work and thousands of consulting dollars on this.
Shame on Microsoft. This is a widespread and extremely nutty problem. I had the same exact problem. After over a month of connecting easily back and forth between two XP desktops and a new Win 7 laptop, the Win 7 laptop stopped connecting to the XP desktop. XP desktop can access the Win7 laptop and access the shared folders. Win7 laptop cannot access the shared folders from the XP desktop.
Spent hours and hours troubleshooting. Simple, stupid cause and fix. Stumbled across this finally in a help file: "Both computers must be on the same system time. Corrected it's time to the correct time and the connection was restored without so much as a reboot.
That version of the Windows operating system installed like that. Can you see why it works? Administrator to Administrator. If there is no account by that name on the target machine, the connection is rejected. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. The windows 7 network map shows it has seen it but states that it cannot be placed in the map.
I have diabled IPV6 but still no go. Both machines are in a homegroup. Anyone got any ideas? Thursday, January 14, PM. Hi MSayre, Since your issue is not related to the current one, please create a new thread in our Networking forum and discuss there. Marked as answer by zipe Thursday, January 21, PM. Tuesday, January 19, AM. This solved. How to get XP to talk to windows 7 and share. The actions that MS forgot to tell us all.. Sorry but I do not normally complain about MS as I work closeley with them on other developments but this one has really got me - three weeks to resolve and a lot of digging - MS really want to look at their redundancy testing as it is flawed!!
This Fix is for XP home but maybe of use for the other variations. If you are not comfortable in editing the registry then get someone who is as you will need to do so. Hi All, In some need of expert opinions regarding an issue I'm facing. I have tried accessing the share by both name and IP from the XP machine to no avail.
Is it even possible to access a file being shared from a Windows 10 computer to Windows XP? Best Answer. Cuber This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional.
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I set this up with my own XP and win7 PC's and it worked simply by setting the name of the Workgroup to the same on both PC's and making it a Work share instead of Home on the win7, I didn't have to change anything else.
Thanks for that but it already is. I've been back on the PC's and double checked all permissions are set and even tried creating an new user account on the win7 PC with the same name and password as the account on the XP, but no change.
I am told that another person who worked on the old Win XP PC made a lot of changes but what could he have done that would stop access to the shared files from the win7 PC? Is there something in the registry that could have been changed to completely block access on a network?
A reinstall may be the only way out of this mystery but I would like to learn from solving this problem. Just for the record this is the fix that did it. It was a registry edit on the XP machine that was not set to the default of 0, how it got changed is a mystery. You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads S. Sebastian42 Sep 20, Networking.
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