[MikeSummer]

Hi,

I want to keep my documents on my XP SP2 machine, but be able to edit them from a windows 7 laptop. Points so far:

1. I can print from windows 7 to XP OK.
2. Before I re-installed XP this was working fine.
3. The workgroups match
4. I can see the XP files on the windows 7 machine
5. When I click on an XP file on the windows 7 machine, it goes very slowly, then gives a "Not Accessible" error.
6. I have not used passwords to set this up.
7. The shared documents folder was working yesterday, but not now!

Any ideas?

Mike

 

[Wand3r3r]

check the xp windows firewall that file and print sharing is allowed.
make sure the account you are logging in under win7 exists with same name/password on windows xp.
make sure the xp share is shared to 'everyone' with full control.

 

[MikeSummer]

Hi,

thanks for the response.

The firewall and the login details are fine. By XP share I am not quite sure what you mean:
- I have XP home, hence simple file sharing is already set.
- I have set the folders to "share this folder on the network" and "allow network users to change my files" that I want to share.
- I have set it up so there are no passwords needed

Note that I started to set the file sharing up before I had finished adding new users, and using the new user accounts. Perhaps this has cofused things. Note that it is possible to see a file called "Owner" on the Windows 7 laptop in addition to the files that I have shared. This "Owner" file is not seen on the XP PC.

 

[Wand3r3r]

Home directories like "owner" are not shared and have issues being shared since windows is trying to protect the folder from others locally. Better to use the Public or a newly made folder off the root to do sharing.