On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:02 PM, David Burstin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've had a workgroup running at home for years without problems. I recently > replaced an XP machine with a windows 7 one and can't get them to see each > other on the network. I've done heaps of Google searches and am overwhelmed > with the amount of (mis)information out there. So far nothing has helped.
I have nothing helpful to add (waits for joke ...) but I was just having trouble with the strangeness of Windows 7 a few hours ago. I was trying to copy some file from an external hard drive. Apparently I needed permission from "Everyone" before "ediing" it. It's going to take me a while to do that. > From MOTHER, if I click on Network, I can see the MEDIA machine, however when > I click on it I get "Windows cannot access \\MEDIA. Check the > spelling of the name. Otherwise there may be a problem with your > network....". Clicking Diagnose gets me nowhere. Have you connecting via it's IP? (\\whatever\c$)? Maybe somehow the WINS thingo has been turned off. Also, boring questions: I assume the firewall is turned off and you've looked in the windows event log on both machines? -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
