Win XP Pro sp3 & Win 7 Networking Help required please?
 

Hello,

Hoping someone can assist in this problem I'm experiencing. I have a Desktop PC, and a Media Centre PC both in the same room around 12 foot apart, both are connected through a wire to a Linksys WRT54G Router.

The problem is the following, I upgraded the media centre to Windows7 at which point the system was available and accessible through the Win XP Pro sp3 box and seemed to be all ok. I then renamed the drives in the Media Center box too 'htpc-e' and 'htpc-f' and still everything was working fine.

I then used the 'update' option inside of the Windows7, it duly downloaded various updates to the Windows7 box and then restarted itself, downloaded some more updates restarted again and did the same one more time. However, at this point XP Pro could no longer access the Win7 it could see it, but just not access the folders without giving the following error:

'\\Fusion\htpc-e is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.

The network name cannot be found.'

At this point it was a case of rebuilding the network connection, ensuring that I hadn't inadvertently put Win7 into a 'homegroup' and that BOTH systems were using the (basic) 'WORK' workgroup to connect to each other like 'old skool' Windows Networking, both are fine, however, once again the XP Pro sp3 box cannot access the folders on the Win7 box.

Needless to say this is quite frustrating, everything was fine until I downloaded and applied the damn updates, since then Win7 is 'seen' over the network, but is inaccessible.

Has anyone got any ideas on what went wrong?

Thanks.

Re: Win XP Pro sp3 & Win 7 Networking Help required please?
 

yup, the network permissions on the Win7 machine got changed.

Go to Network and Sharing Center
Advanced Network options

Scroll down to where it specifies 'password protected sharing' and turn it off.

Solved the problem when I first encountered it on the network here.

Re: Win XP Pro sp3 & Win 7 Networking Help required please?
 

Hi thanks for taking the time to reply.

However, something strange has just happened. The 'password protected sharing' was already set to 'off'. So I changed it to 'on', then from this machine double clicked the drive set as 'htpc-e on fusion' double clicked it and up popped a password prompt. I then went back to the MCE machine, this time I set the 'password protected sharing' to 'off' and came back to this machine and double clicked 'htpc-e on fusion' and it continues to give me the password prompt. I shutdown Xplorer2 the file manager I use opened Windows Explorer, the same thing happens with the same password prompt.

However, I have another drive the 'htpc-e' drive I no longer seen by the Desktop machine. However I have another drive in there called 'matter' and I click on that receiving the same 'you dont have permission to access this network resource' but no password prompt trying to access this drive, even though its the same ruddy machine!!

I would welcome any other advice?

Thank you.

Re: Win XP Pro sp3 & Win 7 Networking Help required please?
 

Try setting identical accounts on each machine. They should be password protected with identical details on each box.

In the network and sharing centre, advanced settings select "use user accounts and passwords to connect to other computers".

Works for me on a mixed win7/XP network.