On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Jim Peterson <jim.sokytec...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 18:26 -0500, Howard White wrote: > > I keep telling folks that I don't do Windows. I do like to eat, however... > > New customer, prospective phone system sale. Recently added new office > computers, but not total replacement. They have an external, USB > connected, hard disk that they wish to share; connected to the new W7 > machine. W7 machines may get the share but the remaining Vista machine > cannot. Much Google searching has yet to yield conclusive answers; many > posts complaining of same problem, uh, differently. I have neither > Vista nor W7 with which to test. > > Before I came home to research, I suggested they connect the USB hard > drive to the Vista machine to see if W7 could link to that. Some > postings seem to support this hypothesis. > > Would appreciate more than wild guesses as a basis for solution. > > Howard > > > Win7 uses a new "feature" called HomeGroups. These have their own name & > password-type authentication to "ensure" that the requesting machine has > rights to whatever share is on the Win7 box. You might want to check and see > if this has been set up on the Win7 box as this could lock out the others. > > Jim Peterson
Windows tends to cache authentication for things like this. If you're tweaking user/pass to sync everyone up, it might still fail. In this case, the command "net use" might come in handy. Maybe something like: net use \\bobworkstation\officejet /del net use \\bobworkstation\officejet /user:bob Still, even if you do everything correctly, different versions of Windows tend to be super fickle about mixing. -- Don Delp 618.616.2993 http://nesman.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
