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Networking with Windows 7

CES020

CES020

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I had to run get a new computer. Didn't have a lot of time or choices. It's to run a dedicated machine, no big deal.

It's got W7 Home Premium on it.

I'm trying to get it networked back up with the rest of my system. In the past, what I have done in XP, is gone into the networking area and told it the address, like \\computername\directory as the network location for the computer I'm trying to hook up to.

In W7, I can't find that ability. It asks about work groups, home groups, VPN's, and all sorts of stuff, but I can't find the place or option to directly enter the location.

Any idea how to do that in W7? It was so easily accessible in XP.
 
WildWestDesigns

WildWestDesigns

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GB2 said:
Wiindows 7 is very confusing to network with other operting systems. Here is a link to the answers:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/...mputers-running-different-versions-of-Windows

I found it much simpler if your network is named Workgroup, if you name it anything else it can be very frustrating to get it right.
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If you leave it workgroup it's exponentially easier to setup with a network. We have both Windows and Linus OSs on network and it all comes in just fine. Every once in a while, the ole ball and chain will get on the network and we will have a MAC on there, but not that often.

I have found Win 7 to be a really nice OS for a multitude of things and I only have Home Premium, didn't need the ability of XP virtual drive which was the only upside to going Pro and/or Ultimate that I could find. Few other features, but the virtual machine was the biggest.
 
CES020

CES020

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All my files are on my Mac, which are all accessed from XP every day. It's worked well since we got the Mac.

I have an address for all my computers. If I go to a XP box, and right click on the Mac, it gives me the address. If I were starting from scratch, I'd set up a new network connection, tell it I have the address, I'd enter the address and it would ask me for the password, which is the password I set up for the shared folder on the Mac. It then connects and I can see the shared folder and do what I want.

However, with W7, I give it the address and it tells me the password isn't right. I go to any of the XP boxes and delete the connection and start over, and the password goes right through.

What it appears to do is it keeps renaming the login. Where my address is \\mymaccomputer\user , it shows \mywin7pc\macusername.

If I bypass that one and tell it I want to enter all my own stuff, that fails too. If I enter just the user name, that doesn't work, if I enter the local address of the Mac, that doesn't work. If I enter the IP, that doesn't work.

Win7 sees the Mac in the network list, but it just won't let the login happen.

I've got file sharing on, SMB on, I created a user on the Mac that matches the user on the PC (which I read on MS website).

I just changed the name of the new computer, and now it doesn't see anything. No XP machines, no nothing.

I noticed that W7 doesn't like workgroups to be named anything other than WORKGROUP, and I had ours named as "OFFICE". So I have changed all those to WORKGROUP now.

(oh, and no my caps lock button isn't on when entering the password :p)

I don't know, I'm at my wits end right now. I'm behind on work, had to get this computer to get a machine running, which I have, but now I've having to do everything with flash drives just to keep running.
 
CES020

CES020

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The Mac now sees the PC, and I can share files on the PC, but I can't see the Mac from the PC with W7, but I can see it fine with all the XP machines.
 
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