windows 7 xp network

mollymoo · 6 Nov 2009 at 12:56

I've just installed windows 7 and the other 2 computers in the house are xp, how do I go about setting up a network for all 3? I have googled about but still have no idea, I think this maybe because I have no idea about windows 7

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

bledd · 6 Nov 2009 at 13:05

I disabled the homegroup services on 7 (there's two of them)

and just used windows folder sharing

mollymoo · 6 Nov 2009 at 15:22

one of the xp machines is asking for a password and username to access me, and they can only find me when they do a search for me and I can only find them if I turn the firewall off on my pc, seems that this windows 7 is more trouble than it's worth

mollymoo · 6 Nov 2009 at 16:26

sorted just takes about ten mins to turn up for some reason

theheyes · 6 Nov 2009 at 16:34

Make sure your local network is set to "private" otherwise a lot of the sharing and discovery services are turned off making the job more difficult.

bledd · 6 Nov 2009 at 16:35

start, run

\\computername

then you enter the username/password set for that machine

mollymoo · 6 Nov 2009 at 16:39

theheyes said:
Make sure your local network is set to "private" otherwise a lot of the sharing and discovery services are turned off making the job more difficult.

To be honest I've just installed it today and wouldn't know where to look for that

1pudding1 · 10 Nov 2009 at 17:48

Ive got the same setup here. Just installed Win 7 on main desktop, and have XP on my Netbook. Just cant get networking to work correctly. I can ping each machine fine, so somethings working. But I cant browse and see each others shared folders. Any suggestions? Or any info you clever guys need?