Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Networking. Sign in to vote. Friday, January 14, PM. That has to be changed to workplace network, to get fully advanced sharing possiblilties.
Mike Wolfgang. Wednesday, January 19, AM. I hvae similar prob It's about innovation and fairness". Any help is appreciated, Mike Are you and your wife administrators of your PCs? Monday, January 17, PM. Hi Mike, Before going further, would you please let me know what error message is received when trying to access files. Regards, Niki Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question.
This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Tuesday, January 18, AM. Thanks for the response Wolfgang, Until this morning, I was an administrator and my wife was a limited user.
Tuesday, January 18, PM. Hi Niki, Both of us can see all of the files. DMBrew wrote: Thanks for the response. If that does not help disable the firewall completely on both PCs and see if that helps. Wednesday, January 19, PM. Thanks again, Mike Good to hear - glad, that you got it working! Regards Wolfgang. Your name will display there with your PC name on select Items. You can add more permissions, but be careful what you allow. You do not need to add any more users or permissions to share this way.
Now if you have an extra Drive and want to store your personal Information on it and want others users on your PC or PC's across your network to have access to the drive for use or storage, but do not want them accessing your personal Items, then do this. Follow the instructions above the same for You and Admins. Each User on this PC or Across the Network can do this logged into their account to protect their files and privacy.
After this is completed for all users, reboot modem and Restart all PC's on Home network to set your network. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.
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In other words, we are not troubled by firewalls, security software, router configuration, and similar things. So here we go, please be patient, but if you don't care about all the rest and just want to fix your specific problem, then please scroll down to the solution. Windows 7 introduces a new concept of sharing called Homegroup sharing. It's a somewhat complicated effort at replicating what workgroups are unto offices.
If you create a homegroup and associate computers to it, then supposedly, all your sharing should be fairly simple. The system will automagically configure firewall rules and exceptions and all that. The problem is, homegroups are somewhat clunky.
If there's already a homegroup defined in your local network, you will not be able to create another one. If your router does not support IPv6, you will not be able to join homegroups. And even if everything works just fine, homegroup still does not support sharing of entire drives.
This leaves you with the option of using the classic sharing, or advanced sharing, which means that for every desired folder or drive you want to share, you will have to go through the properties, add the list of allowed users and set the correct permissions. You will also need to adjust various settings in the Advanced sharing settings to make absolutely sure your machines can see each other and communicate without issues.
Let's briefly review the things that might interfere - although, I must emphasize, none of these are relevant for the problem we have here. Public folders are an option, but irrelevant here, and so is encryption.
The one more thing you might want to pay attention to is whether to password-protect your shares, but again, since you already can successfully access folder shares, this is not what's bothering you. In the worst case, with password-protected sharing in place, you will need to input the relevant username and password, which could be your user or a generic share user.
We will elaborate on this a little more later on. While i was doing it i tried pinging computer 1 from computer 2 and it also ping with zero loss. Computer 1 reads and writes on computer 2 just fine. Thanks for your time Tom. In reply to TomKreate's post on July 26, Hello Tom, Thank you for providing quick update on the issue status. I would recommend that you reset all the permissions for the shared drive.
In reply to Naman R's post on July 27, I tried you last suggestions. Computer 2 sees all the drives on computer 1 but when i try to open them i get the permission error still. Thank for you time Tom. In reply to TomKreate's post on July 29, Hello, Thank you for the update on the status of the issue. Refer the information provided in the link below for creating new user account on Windows 7.
Create a user account Do let us know the status of the issue, so that we can assist you further. In reply to Naman R's post on August 1, I have been away but today was able to try creating a 2nd admin account on comp2.
I was really hoping that would fix my problem, but i get the very same message about not having permission. I use Avast Free and Advanced Systemcare Ultimate 7 on both computers and have made sure they both have the same settings on both computers. So i am still in need of more help. Thanks so much for your time Tom.
In reply to TomKreate's post on August 17, Hello Tom, Thank you for updating us on the status of the issue and also providing us valuable information on the security software installed on the computer.
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