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goblin · 03-05-2010, 21:23

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.

03-05-2010, 21:23	#1
goblin Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 199	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.