cguan wrote: hi guys, i had windows xp and windows 7 machine. Windows XP is able to connect to windows 7 shares if i used ip address such as \\192.168.1.3 but if use host name in windows xp such as \\mywin7 it's not able to connect any ideas? thank you. THat's a typical name resolution problem. First type ipconfig -all in a cmd window on both PCs involved and paste the results here. Then try nbtstat -a mywin7 and nbtstat -A 192.168.1.3 on the XP box and nbtstat -n on the Win7 box, and post the results, too. Further I'd check if you can ping your WIN7 from the XP box by name and see if the ping is using the correct IP-address. If it is using a wrong IP-address use nslookup and see if the name of your Win7 PC resolves correctly or not. That should give a first picture, where the problem most probably can be resolved. Wolfgang

hi guys, i had windows xp and windows 7 machine. Windows XP is able to connect to windows 7 shares if i used ip address such as \\192.168.1.3 but if use host name in windows xp such as \\mywin7 it's not able to connect any ideas? thank you. Every second counts..make use of it.