If that is all you are going to post…. Please do not bother. That is no help at all to a problem that a lot of xp users face.
My mac can see the network shares, but XP cannot? OUCH MS.. you need help!…
Windows XP PCs Can’t See Windows 7 PCs on the Network: Fix
6 May 2009 @ 12pmSeveral users have experienced an issue in which Windows XP PCs cannot see Windows 7 PCs on the same network and/or vice versa. Fortunately, this issue is usually due only to configuration issues and can be easily fixed:
Fixes
Change network setting to home or work If you have your group set to “Public” in the Network and Sharing Center in Windows 7, the system will be undiscovrable by Windows XP machines on the network. Open your Control Panel, then select Network and Sharing Center, and change the setting to either “Work” or “Home.” Make sure that all computers are using the same group.
Make sure Network Discovery is turned on In Windows 7, go back to the Network and Sharing Center in the Control Panel, and make sure that the “Network Discovery” option is set to “On.”
You may need to restart your computer after applying these changes.
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Windows 7, Windows XP
that didn’t work for me, im running xp on my laptop and 7 on my pc
Thank you for the fix – it worked like a charm
Sorry, no. I have both those options set, and Windows 7 cannot see the XP machine, even though the XP machine can see the Windows 7 machine.
butcher99 please don’t be an a55hole. He posted something to try to help, that’s more than you have done, period.
I got mine to work Control Panel – All Control Panel Items -Network and Sharing Center – Advanced sharing settings check Turn off password protected sharing
I have tried many suggestions but have yet to find a solution that works for me. We have 1 W7 machine and the rest of our network is XP. Cannot access the W7 puter and the W7 puter does not see any of the XP machines. So many people having the same issue.
Ah.. Fixed it. What worked for me was changing the workgroup the W7 machine belonged to, reboot, then changed it back again to the workgroup that the other machines are on. This was the same workgroup that it was on in the first place but for some reason it was not working.
I’m having the same problem. I just watched a tutorial on youtube and it seems obvious to everyone but me that if you have the same workgroup name, the computers connect to each other automatically. The tutoral took this as granted. But I cannot make any computer to see each other. Hope any of you have any solution for this. Thanks.
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