WinXP cant connect to Win7

Xandos

Xandos

Xandos

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Hi guys, sorry to be posing such a boring question. I've got a network, and all of the machines connected need to be able to access my windows 7 machine, some of which are xp boxes (this is a rendering farm - or at least will be).

The trouble is that any XP machine that tries to connect to my 7 machine gets the error: "\\--- is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource"

In the folders permissions I've got Everyone and Guest set to max permissions - however since the XP boxes can't even get to the shared root I don't think this is where the problem lies. I've tried turning off "password protected sharing" and that doesn't fix it. Also have "Use user accounts and passwords to connect..." instead of homegroup connections.

I'm at quite a loss at what I should be doing to resolve this, which means I'm missing something like 10 quad cores from my farm :(

Any ideas?

Many thanks for reading.
 
Get your drivers disk and search for the LAN section on the disk.
Go to the "device manager" and look for your Lan with the yellow or red icon on it and select "update drivers" and then go to your disk for the drivers. It should load ok.
 
Thanks for the reply.

The drivers for my network adapter are installed, and other machines (Vista/7) can network to the machine perfectly. I'm pretty sure at some point in the past XP machines could network to my Win7 machine - I just don't know what changed....

Are you saying that drivers could be causing this?
 
Sounds like it could be related to the Guest Account on Windows 7. See if this works.

# Open Administrative Tools -> Local Security Policy.
# Click on Local Policies -> User Rights Assignment on the left.
# Double-click "Deny access to this computer from network".
# Select Guest and click Remove.
# click OK.
# EDIT: Ensure in the Permissions for the network share, that Guest is included, since it's no longer part of the Everyone group.
# Use regedit to go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and create or modify the value of LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy (32-bit dword) to 1, so the remote logon token will not be filtered

Hope this helps
 
Hi, thanks for the reply.

I've done all of the mentioned things, though I've been tinkering around with so many settings now that I might well have sabotaged myself again.

After trying to net view the machine, I seem to get an error 58 most of the time, and googling that led me to enabling “Send LM & NTLM – use NTLMv2 session if negotiated” on both machines. This on the surface of it seemed to work - woohoo! HOWEVER, then it stopped working again. Then it started working. Then it stopped working. I'd almost rather it didn't work at all haha.

Any ideas? Thanks again.
 
I've had the same problem, had to resort to upgrading all XP to Win 7. I was bale to setup a mapped drive from 7 to XP, but XP has problems seeing a Win 7 network.

I'd be interested if there's a solution. I understand there was a patch released by MS for Windows Home server to allow it to see Win 7 machines.

Andi.

PS This might help!
 
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