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Some basic questions about Seven & XP sharing.
Hiya!
I've got a home network with based on D-Link DIR-655 router, its IP address is 192.168.1.1, mask is 255.255.255.0 and it has disabled DHCP or any firewalls.
I have three computers in this network, two of them use Windows 7 Ultimate and the last, and old, one - Windows XP Professional.
Network group name is "HOME" on every PC.
I have some basic questions:
- why do I see this, while there's no user password on any PC and password sharing is turned off (along with this funny Homegroup feature killing all connections to XP):
- why it's so hard to make a normal, working LAN consisting of mixed (XP and Seven) PCs? I just love Seven, but all the new "improvements" in Sharing section are pretty frustrating,
- I guess there's no possibility of joining a Homegroup with Windows XP? And why, the hell, Homegroup always needs/generates a password:
I'm looking for simple answers, because I don't want to create new password-protected user account just for sharing purposes.