Windows 7: Can't Write to Shared Folder

I'm having no luck making a Windows 7 folder write accessible to XP. I've turned off password protected sharing and given both "Everyone" and "Guest" read/write permission. I can access the folder, but whenever I try to transfer a file to it, I get:



"Error Copying File or Folder - Cannot copy ____: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use."

Any suggestions?

Anyone?

Network access requires a password. Make sure you have the same Account (username and password) on both machines.

Really? I can access the folder just fine, I just can't write to it.

That sounds pretty inconvenient. Are you sure about that?


I've never had a problem writing to shared folders from XP to XP, or 7 to XP for that matter. What's the issue with writing from XP to 7?

If you could than someone not authorized could write to it and cause a lot of issues for you. Or a virus could attack your system. A password is a good thing.

This is the way it has always been. You need the same user accounts on both machines to access data on each machine.

Maybe you were using simple sharing in XP? That makes it easy to share things but it is still using passwords in the background. Windows 7 HomeGroup replaces that and make Windows 7 machines easy to connect but it is much harder to use and get XP machines to work with HomeGroup. Most everyone that needs access to XP and 7 machines turns HomeGroup off and uses Workgroups.

That's never been the case for me, in years of sharing resources between dozens of computers with different user accounts.

Never heard of it. It must be on by default, as I've never had to set it up.

That's what I've done. I only have one machine running 7, so I'm just using workgroups. It's working great with the exception that I can't write to this folder I have shared on 7.

Right click on that folder and go to the attrubaries... make sure its not set to read only

Afraid that's not the problem.

Any other ideas?

How about in this setting?

how about change this to full control on the folder you want to read/write????

It worked! Thanks, acurasd!

See, I was assuming that this would be enough:



And I suppose it would be if it actually did what it says. But I take it that it will only work for another Windows 7 machine? Are those "advanced sharing" permissions only necessary for XP?