Hi,
I have a client with a very small network (was 3 x XP Pro pcs) which are sat in a workgroup. One has recently died so client has bought a 64 bit Win7 to replace it.
There's a few shares on one of the XP machines along with a shared printer. None of which I can access from the Win 7 pc; I get prompted for credentials which are entered as computer_name\user_name & the appropriate password but this is just rejected & I am returned to the credentials screen.
I can map from the XP machine to the Win 7 one but not the other way. Am pretty much at my wits end now after several 3am finishes. Have tried the googled answers I found for drive mapping / print sharing issues which were
- Firewalls off
- NTLM settings through secpol.msc
- Homegroup
- Network setting (Home / Work / Public) on Win 7
- Switching AV off on both
Does anyone have any experience of this please? Any other pointers? Really don't want to have the expense of taking them all to Windows 7 just to fix a drive mapping issue but I really don't want to spend my life on this either!
Thanks all 🙂
Sympathies.
Windows networking - pie of poo.
Mmmm. I'd happily put ipx / spx on if 64 bit supported it.
Try dropping the computername from the credentials.
Is simple file sharing enabled in XP? Disable it?
How are you connecting? \\ipaddress ?
Various suggestions here,
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/share-files-and-printers-between-windows-7-and-xp/
http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/xp-to-windows-7-printer-sharing/
TBH, I've got W7 and XP machines here and it's all 'just worked' whenever I've tried it. I've never had to faff about with any of the stuff listed here. The only real gotcha I can think of is that you've probably not got name resolution so you need to refer to machines by IP address rather than name.
the only other really obvious thing to check- time synchronised on all the machines.
Good point. Time Zones too - if the time is 'correct' but TZ is wrong, the clocks will actually be out by several hours.
IIRC to work between XP and Vista/W7 you need to work with specific user accounts ( its been a long long time and you may have this already setup , so sorry if you have )
Vista/W7 are more user account orientated rather than machine account orientated like XP. If you want to log in the XP machine, there needs to be an account on the XP machine that W7 logs in as.
So on your XP machine you would setup a user account called W7Login ( or whatever ) along with a suitable password. then on that XP machine, you set the sharing of the shared folders to specifically allow the W7Login account to have the relevant permissions to read/write to the folder etc.
Then from your W7 machine, you connect to the XP machine and log into it as the W7Login account. When you do, you should see the shared folders.
As I say, its been along long time, but it was along those lines I had to work in order to share folders between XP and later versions of windows.