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Strange and stranger--win7 to XP
I have a Win7x64 pro system in one building and an XP SP3 system in another.
I had a terrible time getting the network setup and running. I read every tutorial and tried every suggestion posted here...except reformatting my XP system (got that too).
But finally I managed to get it up and running. Although it necessitated changing the XP box so that I had to log on everytime I booted it up.
Everything has been going along swimmingly until about two weeks ago when the mobo on the XP Box went tips up.
So...now I've got a new motherboard, processor, more ram and a new video card. I had the old hard drive with XP on it re-installed (legacy software which I both need and am fond of).
Everything is working perfectly...except! You guessed it the network.
Now here's the strange part: the XP machine still sees the Win 7 machine just like it did. But the Win 7 machine only sees one folder/directory (and sub directories) on the XP machine out of about six or seven that I had enabled for sharing previously. I can share files in both directions. But the Win 7 machine refuses to see the other directories on the XP system.
I have diligently check the sharing settings on all the missing directories to be certain that they are the same as on the one directory that Win 7 see...they are identical. And all of them, including the one directory that is visible, unchanged since before the mobo upgrade.
Obviously the network is still working but Windows 7 is partially blind.
Can anyone tell me what is going on and offer some thoughts as to how to deal with this problem?