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

Well, you gotta have a password for an account in order for the server to allow access to it across the lan. Set one for each account you will be sharing from. To do this, go to control panel, then while viewing large or small icons, choose user accounts. Then create a password for this account, or something similar to it.

This is a security measure by MS.

If you still want your computer to boot into the account without manually typing a password, go to start menu. In the search box, type netplwiz. Hit enter. Then uncheck the box for "users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.' Hit apply. Enter the password twice. Ok your way out and done.

In XP, try setting the folders that will not share to "everyone" for permissions. First you've got to take the check box off for "enable simple file sharing (recommended)" when you open my computer. Then go to (by memory here so it may be wrong) view, folder options.

You share an entire drive just like any other folder. By default, Windows is sharing all the drives as hidden. Your C:\ is being shared as C$, D:\ as D$ etc...for all non-removable media....i.e. hard disks. You can not even disable this if you wanted. Well, you could but a reboot always shares again as hidden unless you use a batch file to start up with your pc.

To see what you are currently sharing from a machine, open an elevated command prompt (cmd in search box on start menu) and type in it "net share" without quotation marks and hit enter.

Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

All folders I'm trying to share are set to everyone and simple file sharing is not selected.

As for the full drives, they show up on my XP box as shared but are not at all visible in Win 7. The only things that show up are the individual folders I selected, the first of which is the only one I can access.

So confused. 8(

Try setting the security on these folders to allow everyone. Even though mine were shared i had to change the security as well.
That worked for me.

i solve one of my problem. i can acces my pc (wired with xp sp3 ) from my laptop (wireless). the answer is here Error message: "Not enough server storage is available to process this command" . now i have only one problem i canț''T access my laptop from my pc . i get the follow message "logon failure:user account restriction. possible reason are blank password not allowed, logon hour restrictions or a policy restriction has been enforced. "
i don"t have passowrd on my laptop and i don'"t wanna put one so i keep looking for an answer. if i find one i will post in here. who want to help me plz do

phew! 10 pages on this simple problem?

no need for netbeui, just need passwords on the user accounts.... its THAT easy ppl

""If you still want your computer to boot into the account without manually typing a password, go to start menu. In the search box, type netplwiz. Hit enter. Then uncheck the box for "users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.' Hit apply. Enter the password twice. Ok your way out and done.""
10x solved in this way, but in xp wasn"t in this way with user account an password. good job with the option not to enter a password when log in (uncheck the box for "users must enter a user name and password to use this computer)
one more question ; in xp when you share a folder appear a hand over the folder to know that the folder is shared. i don"t see any sign over the icon folder in win 7 to know that the folder is shared. do you?
another question : if i don"t wanna a sher a folder how can i switch from shared to not to be share??

In Windows 7 instead of a hand its a little square icon with a picture of 2 people when a folder is shared

Right click and either go to Share (If Simple Folder Sharing is enabled [Tools - Folder Options - View Tab - Down at the bottom]) or go to Properties and then to the Sharing Tab/Share button. You can also check the Security tab and make sure that "Everyone" has no access (Not there), or change to the limited access setting or your choice.

True...no "need." But it does offer better security as I said (because it is much more rarely used) and for some reason, there is no way I could ever get 10 to 11 megabytes per second between machines on my router (DI-624) without it. At least to me, it is tons more efficient.

I just loaded version 7077, and the problem is solved. All the computers and shared folders show up...

Thanks for all the tips and tricks,

Cajun