how to connect XP and win7
I have a DSL modem with a wireless router in the same box from bell. the desktop is connected by ethernet cable and runs XP. I have a laptop with wifi running win7. the laptop says there is a home group but shows itself only. running the network wizard on the desktop creates a network, but again only the desktop is shown. How can I make them see each other?? addtl: laptop has McAfee and desktop has AVG with firewalls.
October 17th, 2011 2:14pm

StephenCB wrote: I have a DSL modem with a wireless router in the same box from bell. the desktop is connected by ethernet cable and runs XP. I have a laptop with wifi running win7. the laptop says there is a home group but shows itself only. running the network wizard on the desktop creates a network, but again only the desktop is shown. How can I make them see each other?? addtl: laptop has McAfee and desktop has AVG with firewalls.   Change your network on your laptop to a work network, that way you get away from the homegroups (Homegroups do not work with XP PCs). Then you have to setup both (PC and laptop) to use the same Network settings and enable file and print sharing on both machines. Also turn on network discovery in Advanced sharing options on your Win7 laptop. Lastly you have to define, which files are shared and who is allowed to access the shared files. Wolfgang
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October 17th, 2011 3:38pm

can you pls explain how to setup both (PC and laptop) to use the same Network settings Thanks a lot.
October 17th, 2011 4:34pm

StephenCB wrote: can you pls explain how to    setup both (PC and laptop) to use the same Network settings    Thanks a lot. In windows XP it's called Network Connections; in Win7 you find them under Network and sharing Center / Change adapter settings. There under the properties of a Network Connection you need the "Client for MS networks" and "File and Printer Sharing for MS networks" enabled and installed as well as TCP/IP on WinXP and TCP/IPv4 on Win7. The other entries here are not necessarily needed for file-sharing between PCs. You should enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP on the WINS tab of the properties of TCP/IP resp. TCP/IPv4 . The rest of the TCP/IP settings can remain default i.e.: everything popuplated by DHCP. You have to use the same workgroup for both machines, which you set via Properties of the Computer, by default this should be WORKGROUP, but you can set that to anything you like. Then after restarting with the new settings check the configuration by entering ipconfig -all in a cmd-prompt window. You should see both machines with similar but different IP-addresses and the same netmask and the same default gateway. In fact they have to be on the same subnet (that means if you do a logical AND of IP-address and netmask for both machines you get the same result). If you don't know how to do that, post both IP-address/netmask pairs and almost anybody here can tell you if they are on the same subnet. Wolfgang
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October 17th, 2011 5:30pm

I have a DSL modem with a wireless router in the same box from bell. the desktop is connected by ethernet cable and runs XP. I have a laptop with wifi running win7. the laptop says there is a home group but shows itself only. running the network wizard on the desktop creates a network, but again only the desktop is shown. How can I make them see each other?? addtl: laptop has McAfee and desktop has AVG with firewalls. First of all i would suggest you to configure both firewall to allow the network access for both xp & win 7, if you don't know how to go about it, i would suggest you to uninstall it for the time being and next ensure network & file sharing is enable for both xp & win 7 and turn off password protected sharing in win 7
October 17th, 2011 8:55pm

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