Networking (to file share) between Windows 7 and Windows XP

No you don't have to have a password to move files between Xp & Win7.
After you have shared a folder in Win7 use regedit and search for "blankpassword". You will get 3 hits. Ignore the first one and hit F3 to find the next. Change the value from 1 to 0. Hit F3 again and do it once more.
Exit and your done!

Ron7M said:

No you don't have to have a password to move files between Xp & Win7.
After you have shared a folder in Win7 use regedit and search for "blankpassword". You will get 3 hits. Ignore the first one and hit F3 to find the next. Change the value from 1 to 0. Hit F3 again and do it once more.
Exit and your done!

this is true, but less secure, reason why to use the user/pass accounts to manage. Also, this affects the security setup permissions used on an XP share. If someone has this setup on say "workgroup", and doesnt pay attention to where the laptop may roam, like a hotel or such, those shares will be exposed unless you turn everything off (filesharing) when you are not on your own private secure network. This is the good practical reason and feature that MS has implemented with the Home, Work, and Public type of network to choose from, instead of doing all this manually like done in the past. Or you just figured out to not use a common workgroup. how many family members do you know that go and setup their workgroup name? was about 10% in my case, lesson learned.

adicontakt said:

i just installed win 7 rc and now i can"t see my laptop (win7) from my pc (win xp), both on the same workgroup, the problem it that i can turn on network discovery

did you install the LLTP on xp?

it wrote bad the real message is "i just installed win 7 rc and now i can"t see my laptop (win7) from my pc (win xp), both on the same workgroup, the problem it that i CAN"T turn on network discovery"
sorry but what is LLTP?

adicontakt said:

it wrote bad the real message is "i just installed win 7 rc and now i can"t see my laptop (win7) from my pc (win xp), both on the same workgroup, the problem it that i CAN"T turn on network discovery"
sorry but what is LLTP?

Download details: Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder (KB922120)

I had all the problems I've read in this forum

solved

Uninstalled Norton and installed PCtools on both

worked immediatly.

I had Pctools on xp and new laptop came with the .....p Norton.

Try that.

Ronw73

Ihave xp pro on one laptop and new hp laptop with win 7

had problems but resolved (after many hours!) by getting rid of the rubbih virus programme that was shipped with the HP and installing PCtools as on my xp laptop
no problem

probable conflict between two diffent anti virus programmes.

Ron73

Hello,

I'm using Windows 7 for the desktop computer and XP home for a netbook. The netbook always forget the password to connect to the Win7 desktop. I don't have this with XP pro because there's a check to make it remember the password.

Any solution ?

By disabling IPv6 on all systems, sharings are back to normal.

W7 <=> XP.

Hope it helps you.