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Sharing with specific people
With Windows XP and Vista I was always able to connect my computers together and share the folders without difficulty. When I installed Windows 7 on my desktop with Vista on my laptop I had no trouble with file sharing. Today I installed Windows 7 on my laptop and now I have trouble with file sharing. If I share a folder with the homegroup no problem (I have homegroup sharing enabled), but the folder is wide open so that anyone on the homegroup can see the folder.
My problem is that if I want just my laptop and desktop to see each other they can't. Both the laptop and the desktop computers have the same user name and password, in the same workgroup and the folder on the desktop is set to share with a specific user name (me). When I try to access the folder from the laptop, I get a window saying that I don't have permission to access the folder. If I set the folder to share with the homegroup the laptop gets access.
I'm stymied, any idea's what the problem is?