XP Mode, sharing files on guest machine

Easy and straight forward procedure. Like this:

• First, set XP Mode to use the NIC of your host machine to ensure they belong to same subnet. To do this, open XP Mode settings, choose Networking from the left pane, and choose your host's network controller from drop down list. Click OK to save settings:
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• Open Control Panel > Folder Options in XP Mode, check that Simple File Sharing is enabled:
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• Check that both host and XP Mode guest belong to same workgroup. In XP Mode, right click My Computer in Start menu or on desktop, choose Properties, choose Computer Name tab. In Seven, right click Computer in Start menu or on desktop, choose Properties:
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• Change the workgroup name on one or both machines if necessary. To do this, in XP Mode click Change button, in Seven click Change Settings link
• After reboot, both machines should see each other:
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• To share XP Mode's documents with host and other computers in the network, drag any folder you want to share to Shared Documents folder (this does not move the folder it self, it just creates a shortcut). You can also save files directly to this Shared Documents folder:
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• Now you should be able to see XP Mode's shared folders on your Seven host machine:
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That's it.

By the way, here's a practical tip: I have chosen to change XP Mode's My Documents location to a network location, to my user folder on the host machine. This way all my XP Mode documents are saved on host machine instead of XP Mode and are available directly from host, even when XP Mode is not running:



Happy networking!

Kari

You are welcome. Any problems, come back to tell.

Kari

First, thanks for that domain info. Forgot to mention that, but as you mentioned the principle is the same; both host and guest must belong to same workgroup or domain.

OK, sharing. It should work, I've had no problems to share folders by dragging and dropping them to Shared Documents. If the issue remains, you could try direct sharing.

Right click the folder you want to share, choose Sharing and Security:



Check (enable) both options shown here, name the share:



The result should be this:



Kari

I'll ask some network geeks to come here and see what could be done.

You might have to force permissions onto the shared folder if the standard procedure is not working... I forget how to do that in XP though. Is it the 7 machine that is having problems editing content or the XP?