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Win 7/XP network: "You do not have access to the folder...."
I'm an old disabled guy scraping by on Social Security, so I rely on hand-me-down hardware and software donated to me by family, friends, acquaintances and total strangers.
Up until last year I relied on an old workhorse of a Micron Millennia PC running Windows 2K Pro. I had it hooked up on a wired Microsoft Windows Network to a motley collection of hand-me-down laptops and PCs, all running Windows XP. It took me some fiddling to get the Win2K and XP machines to play well together on the network, but once I got them to get along with each other the network behaved as if it were one single virtual machine with multiple drives and desktops.
Then last summer my cousin gave me an old PC running Windows 7 that his housemate had refurbished as a gift to me. His housemate is named Bob, so I named the "new" PC "Bob" on my network. The old Micron was starting to fail so I decided to press the "new" Win 7 PC into service to replace it.
It's been nearly a year since I received that PC and to this day I still can't get it working on my network. So I'm hoping to find here some clear and easy to follow instructions for allowing my XP computers to access files on the Win 7 machine and to save files to the Win 7 machine from my XP machines.
Here's an example of the kind of problem that drives me crazy: (I should let you know that due to a circulation disorder that prevents me from sitting up for more than a few minutes at a time I need to work in bed on a failing laptop running Win XP). So, I want to be able to save all my work from my XP laptop to the "new" PC which is running Windows 7. However when I try to save a file the laptop running XP, I get this error message:"You do not have access to the folder '\\Bob\Desktop on Bob'. See your administrator for access to this folder."But I am the administrator.
I've tried to look at the desktop folder properties on the Win 7 PC under Documents and Settings, but when I click on Documents and Settings I get an error message denying me access, even though I'm logged in as administrator.
I'm thinking of reformatting the hard drive on this PC and then installing Windows XP instead of Windows 7.
But before I do that I'm wondering if any of you here can help me figure out why I'm not able to save files from my XP laptop to the PC running Win 7.
And why I, logged in as administrator, am unable to access the Documents and Settings folder on the PC running Win 7.
Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"
Last edited by CluelessInSeatl; 09 Nov 2014 at 12:44. Reason: Corrected typo