Work group problem

Which anti virus do you have installed on your machines?

Petey7 said:

I have two 7 laptops and a XP desktop in our workgroup. After adding the second 7 laptop, neither 7 computer can see the XP computer in network places. Usually I wouldn't care, but with out being able to see the XP computer, the others cannot print to our printer. Keep in mind it was working before adding the second computer. When on the XP computer, I can see the two 7 computers and access files on them with no problem. I tried the some tutorials on here and Microsoft.com about setting up workgroups and solving common problems. This is starting to annoy my parents and me a great deal. Does anyone know what would cause only one computer to see all of them, and how to solve this?

Is the printer the only issue? Or is there a sharing issue as well?

McAfee is causing your problem. The firewall for McAfee needs to be set to allow the range of IP's that your router is using for DHCP. Either that or you can uninstall it. McAfee is famous for causing problems like this. Happens all the time here in the networking section.

Turning off the firewall all too often won't fix these sorts of problems, you need to either uninstall McAfee or configure the firewall to allow the range of IP's that your router is using. Restarts are always required after making changes.

We had three other problems with McAfee causing problems like this just last week. Basically, it's not a Windows 7 problem but an A/V problem. If you want the problem fixed then you will need to deal with McAfee first.