XP Pro SP3 can not connect to Win 7 7057

Hello,

Your correct on both points.

The official RC from MS has a patch for the permission problems, and

Homegroup is ONLY used when connecting two or more systems that are running Win 7, it cannot be used for connecting dissimilar OS's (at least not so far as I can tell)

This is mentioned when you first begin to setup Windows, it does state that it's only for connecting to other Windows 7 PC's

i've since fixed the issue by upgrading to the release candidate, so my problem was definitely local to my build. i'm an expert on sharing, so any of you are welcome to contact me personally and describe your problem, I may be able to help.

I had the same problem and I was able to fix it by creating a new share in the XP machine. While doing so I encounter on the instructions a link on the Share dialog box, instructing me that the computer was not setup for remote acces (which I thought it was). I followed the link and instructions and it's now working fine.

Alan

Thanks Athlonite, I had wasted hours fiddling, following loads of others ideas of the solution. and your instructions for setting up a guest account worked a dream, and I can now enjoy W7. Hope it is that easy when they release W7 proper.

Originally Posted by Athlonite

In order to get your XP machines to see the shared folders of a win7 machine you need to add the Guest account to the security tab
1: right click on shared folder/drive
2: select the Security tab
3: click Edit
4: click Add
5: click Advanced
6: click Find Now
7: at the bottom of the open window scroll down till you find GUEST then ok and ok
you should now be back at the Permissions for (shared) now find where it says guest and go to the tick box on the right and select the full controll tick box then just clck apply and ok twice and you should now be able to browse the shared object on your win7 machine via the win xp machine

Hello,

In order to access your Windows 7 computer from an XP computer you need to first do everything that the people have mentioned here and what I've found is to also "enable" the Administrator account in Windows 7. The Administrator account is disabled by default. Once you uncheck "Account is disabled," you will easily be able to log into a Windows 7 computer from an XP computer using the Administrator password.

AM