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Networking Win 7 and XP, got something wrong :-(
Hi.
I’ve spent around a week finding information about Networking and have printed out lots of information from this forum and MS. However I still cannot get it right so here a few questions that I hope/am sure you will be able to answer.
My setup is as follows, the main PC is running Win 7 Pro 64bit, I also have a PC running Win XP Home and my wife has a laptop also running Win XP Home. It is these three that I want to network and share files across our Belkin router.
There is also another PC and a laptop in the house using our network that I do NOT want to be able to access any of the above 3 computers.
I have managed on my WIN 7 PC to see a test folder on my Win XP PC, I can open this test folder and change its contents, so far so good. I have tried to share a folder on my Win 7 PC with that same XP PC but this seems far more complicated. I have, using the tutorial “Window 7 File sharing between XP and Windows 7… “ attempted to ‘Share’ a folder but only arrived at the “Share with other home computers running window 7?” Which won’t work as I am not connecting to another Win 7 PC.
When I try share with “Specific People” it asks for a ‘NAME’ then to click ADD, I have entered my XP PC’s Name, also my WORKGROUP Name but was advised they couldn’t be found. When I somehow managed to share a folder I was told I could email the link to the recipient (I assumed my XP PC) but on opening the email on the XP PC it couldn’t find the file! (As I could not enter a ‘NAME’ I selected my name on the list below, I didn’t know what else to do so tried it anyway!)
As you and see from the above I am not very PC Savvy, so here are some questions you may be able to answer.
How do I get folders on my Win 7 to appear on my XP PC and wife’s laptop?
How do make sure only the computers I want to can access files but not other computers on the same network?
I have the same logon password on both the Win 7 and XP Pc’s will this confuse the issue?
Many thanks.
Alan.