Problems viewing pcs on network

I have found that the public sharing option works best when sharing between different Op systems. You might try using the public sharing option> " Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can read and write files in the public folders".

Have everything in "public" sharing enabled with password protected sharing "off" usually enables file sharing for all users. It's not the most secure way of doing it but it seems to work pretty well. I also found out that you need to use a different user name on each machine for sharing to work properly.

Ok I have put my settings to what is shown in the picture. I tried to ping my machine via ip and got a request time out with no mdsnresponder.exe in my processes. I am still unable to see anything on the network. Also I don't know if this is a big issue or not, but when I am in my network center it states that I am on Network 2. Thanks!

Ethernet.

Kegobeer---> I have compared it to a working Vista machine configuration. I have found no differences.

Darryl---> I am not able to see any computers and they are not able to see me.

I was wondering, since I have windows 7 pro and in a workgroup instead of a domain, would that cause me not to be able to see other pcs? When I go to view full network map, I can see about 10 pcs and a few switches on the network. There is nothing in common with any of the pcs that I can see. Some are running xp and some are vista. Also some are at other locations. Thanks everyone!

No everyone is on the same workgroup.