Windows 7: Set Up Your Home Network, Windows 7 Edition

Night Hawk · 30 Dec 2009

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Set Up Your Home Network, Windows 7 Edition

Here’s how you can get your Windows 7 PC to share printers and files with XP and Vista PCs--and even a Mac.

Zack Stern, PC World
Dec 30, 2009 9:00 pm

With Windows 7, you can more easily share files and printers across a network via the new HomeGroups feature. HomeGroups lets you connect to files and printers with a group password--if all the PCs have Windows 7. But I'll show you how to get your Windows 7 PC to play nicely on a network that also has Macs and XP/Vista PCs.

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badzed · 02 Jan 2010

can i set up a home network between 32bit and 64bit systems

RedBirdDad · 02 Jan 2010

Yep. Shouldn't make a difference. I have 4 systems running, two 32bit and two 64bit.

badzed · 10 Jan 2010

thank you

badzed · 10 Jan 2010

Help

i have set 4 pc home group with windows 7 and all went well.

But is there any way of not leting the kids user accounts have accses to the home group

hkessels · 10 Jan 2010

Hi

I am setting up a Windows 7 home premium network with 1 HTPC and 3 PCs

eg PC 1 with two HDDs (C:/D

D: set to be shared with network. No passwords as far as I know, so why does Windows 7 keep asking me for a password when I try to connect to PC1 from HTPC ?

sevicetech · 10 Jan 2010

Sorry but MS really jacked up the network on Windows 7, There are 20+ threads here with people trying to get it to work right. Windows 7 just doesn't share nicely with other computers unless Homegroup is activated, which kills access but computers not running Windows 7. I have 3 machines (2 running Windows 7) and can't get Windows 7 to share anything other than what is in the public and recorded TV folders. Overall I really like Windows 7, but the networking is a royal PITA.

RedBirdDad · 11 Jan 2010

Quote: Originally Posted by sevicetech

Sorry but MS really jacked up the network on Windows 7, There are 20+ threads here with people trying to get it to work right. Windows 7 just doesn't share nicely with other computers unless Homegroup is activated, which kills access but computers not running Windows 7. I have 3 machines (2 running Windows 7) and can't get Windows 7 to share anything other than what is in the public and recorded TV folders. Overall I really like Windows 7, but the networking is a royal PITA.

That's not necessarily true. I have both Homegroup and workgroup running on five machines. Four are Windows 7 and one is XP Home. The XP Home box does file and printer sharing (workgroup). In my case the XP box doesn't need to see the Windows 7 machines. But the Windows 7 systems see the XP machine and it's shares and printers with no problem.

I think it comes down to other issues and not *all* Windows 7's fault.

Night Hawk · 11 Jan 2010

Other issues? Far more obvious likely due to how things are configured. The one thing lackiing the article there that would be useful would be some troubleshooting steps. But that would easily take up about two more blogs pages.

Zidane24 · 11 Jan 2010

If people are able to setup their home network just fine...it proves that Windows 7's networking works just fine...

It is normally a misconfiguration of a user...

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