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Win 7 Tip: Microsoft Attempts to Fix Networking With Homegroups
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Another thing. in the last 5 days windows 7 has slowed to a crawl. haven't installed anything but it's hanging a lot. hope they sort that out.
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...it's all true :(
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"Previously, setting up a Windows network was akin to getting your teeth pulled out with anesthesia. "
erm how?
all I've ever done, is load network card drivers (if not already loaded) plug cables into machines, plug into hub / switch / router, set workgroup or domain, enable file sharing, set user to require password.
done.
that simple! (and I've been doing that since windows 3....)
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The main problem? You can't figure out how to grant another computer access to your files. I found "Share", "Advanced Share", and then there was the "Share Files & Folders" option. No matter what combination I tried, the only way to do it seemed to be granting the users (individually) co-ownership of my files (with a separate account on each pc. Apparently this is endemic to Vista attempting to share with Win XP and vice versa.
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with no issues other than the problem you noted... and found it was a password issue. you need the same user on each machine with the same password. but when it comes down to it, that's basic networking practice in the first place.
trust me. put that in place and it'll work just fine.
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