File Sharing between W7 & XP

Thanks chev65 for your reply. I guess permissions was the key to the problem.

But am a bit surprised why the permissions issue came up now. As my laptop (W7 Pro) was previously networked with my desktop (XP SP2) & was in perfect sync with the network. Now I had changed my desktop & installed it with XP SP3.

Am facing the following issues;

1) I am able to rename any shared file/ folder of the XP Desktop on my Laptop. But I am getting an error message renaming any shared file/ folder of the Laptop on Desktop. Neither am able to copy any files to the shared folders to my Laptop on Desktop.

2) Earlier, I was sharing only the required folders & now I have shared the complete drives on both the systems. But still I get those error messages on some of the folders in the drive.

3) Security: There are other machines within my network, now is it possible that I give full access to the drives of my desktop & laptop to each other and restricted access to other machines???

I'm glad the original sharing problem was fixed by checking the permission settings.

If you need more leverage over those files you can try taking ownership of them. The link below will put a shortcut in your context menu to take ownership of which ever file you need full access permissions for.
Take Ownership Shortcut

For full drive access, besides setting the usual permission settings you also need to go into the Security tab of the drive to allow for permissions there by adding "Everyone" to the access list. The picture below shows you how. Although it's safer from a security stand point to share the entire User folder rather than the entire drive.

As for giving individual User permissions for access to only certain files, that is a bit more complicated. In order to do that you need to set up a seperate User group on both machines then you can share only certain files with the special user through that User group.

Parry said:

chev65 said:

For full drive access, besides setting the usual permission settings you also need to go into the Security tab of the drive to allow for permissions there by adding "Everyone" to the access list.

Was able to access the complete drives by giving Full Control to 'Everyone'. Now is that secure, how can I make it secure?

chev65 said:

In order to do that you need to set up a seperate User group on both machines then you can share only certain files with the special user through that User group.

Will we able to access/ add the user on the laptop of the desktop or vice-e-versa?

As was trying to add the same but could'nt. Have single users on both the machines. Guest account on XP is turned 'ON' & on W7 is turned 'OFF'. Changed the name of the user on the desktop to same as on the laptop. On desktop could add only the desktop user & similarly on laptop.

Now after doing so & removing full control from 'Everyone', am able to read/ write on the shared drives on my laptop W7. But when I try to do the same on XP desktop am getting error message of being write protected.

I don't have any XP machines to test anything with, so your best bet is to look up sharing permissions settings for XP and go from there. For sharing with just the single XP machine you would need to set up a seperate new User on your Win7 machine and set up shares from there with the XP machine.

Parry said:

How can I enable Password Protected Sharing specially on XP?

Try this Password Protect Folders in XP - WorldStart Computer Tips and Computer Help