Share my Win7 HDD with WinXP and Win7


  1. fritszoll
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    Windows 7 ultimate
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    Share my Win7 HDD with WinXP and Win7


    Hello People!

    We`ve got a Win7 Ultimate Media PC connected to the TV in the livingroom, and connected to the router and internet. It has two Harddrives:
    1 x 360GB - OSDisk
    1 x 2000GB - MediaDisk

    We want to share the 2TB Media Disk with our other computers:
    1 x WinXP Pro SP3
    1 x Win7 Ultimate

    But i cant get it to work. The only thing i succeeded was getting into my windows 7 desktop with the media pc, but it has to be the other way around.

    Here is a picture discribing things more clearly: CLICK!

    Cant i just Disable all security shit on the Media PC so the other PC`s wont get an error message, that they dont have the privilage to connect to the Media HDD?

    Damn its hard to discribe my problem but to make it short:

    I want to SHARE one HARDDRIVE on a WINDOWS 7 computer with two other computers: one WINDOWS XP computer and one WINDOWS 7 computer.

    Thanks for all help i can get!
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  3. zigzag3143
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    fritszoll said:
    Hello People!

    We`ve got a Win7 Ultimate Media PC connected to the TV in the livingroom, and connected to the router and internet. It has two Harddrives:
    1 x 360GB - OSDisk
    1 x 2000GB - MediaDisk

    We want to share the 2TB Media Disk with our other computers:
    1 x WinXP Pro SP3
    1 x Win7 Ultimate

    But i cant get it to work. The only thing i succeeded was getting into my windows 7 desktop with the media pc, but it has to be the other way around.

    Here is a picture discribing things more clearly: CLICK!

    Cant i just Disable all security shit on the Media PC so the other PC`s wont get an error message, that they dont have the privilage to connect to the Media HDD?

    Damn its hard to discribe my problem but to make it short:

    I want to SHARE one HARDDRIVE on a WINDOWS 7 computer with two other computers: one WINDOWS XP computer and one WINDOWS 7 computer.

    Thanks for all help i can get!

    I will bet you are running "homegroup" for networking. Homegroup uses IPv6 and has connectivity issues on some systems.

    To verify if that is the problem you can simply set up a new network connection using "workgroup" instead. It uses IPv4 and seems to be more reliable

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  4. fritszoll
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    Windows 7 ultimate
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    got a workgroup called media-group, and just got a stabil conection between win7 and win7, will take a look at winxp tomorrow :)
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