I am having problems viewing any computers on my workgroup. I'm in a work environment working off of a workgroup. No pc's are able to even ping my computer. When I go to network and sharing, the network discovery is set to on. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any information would be helpful. My network has about 80 pcs on it ranging from windows 2000 to Vista. I am the only one who has windows 7.
Thanks so much!
ITGIRL
Does your company have an IT department? If so, have they reviewed any of the tutorials on how to configure Windows 7 to network with older operating systems?
How to make Windows 7 work with older Windows versions for networking and file sharing.
Sharing a printer on Windows 7 Vista XP network
Haha I am the IT department. My boss gave my the newest version to figure out all the details on how to get it up and running since we are going to put all the pcs on windows 7 in April. I took a look at both of those links and had another employee check to see if they could see me in their network places, but he couldn't.
I was able to share the folder without a problem. However nobody on the same network can see me or get to me. Nor am I able to see them or get into their computers. Its probably something that I am overlooking. I'll go back and reread them. My brain is fried at this point. I really appreciate the help.
See I was reading somewhere that it could be a configuration in the router but because I had vista before that and it worked just fine, it had to be something on my personal pc. I have turned off my password protection to see if maybe that was it. Could it be a setting in the firewall? The only firewall that I have is the pc firewall that comes preinstalled.
What you want to do is the following and then take things from there (You can enable network discovery if you want to). Also, make sure a password is set for the user account. What happens when others ping you by ip address, instead of machine name? (Look for mdsnresponder.exe in task manager - if you have that, let us know)
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