Hi
I have bought a computer with Windows 7 and I put it in the same workgroup as the other computers of my family. And I have had a lot of trouble with sharing folders over the home network. There's a computer with XP that Windows 7 can see and some days, I can access the shared folders on that computer, but some other days it keeps asking for the Network password . I don't even think I have a network password, whatever I tried to input there, it didn't work(I tried the user and password of the other computer, the ones on my computer, no password, it just says it's wrong and asks for the network password again). I actually never set a network password. Then there's another computer running on Vista. Here, the same problem. Windows 7 can always see Vista, but some days he asks for the network password, some days he doesn't and there's nothing that I can do to control that. The XP and Vista can both see my computer and access the shared folders with no problem.
I have checked on http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Networking-home-computers-running-different-versions-of-Windows the ports, even if I have Windows Firewall and the necessary ports are open(except for the ones for domain, which I opened, checked to see if anything changes, same problem, closed them back).
In the network settings, the network detection is on, the folder and printer sharing is on, public folder sharing is on, ask password for sharing id off.
I really don't know what to do anymore. Can anyone please help me?
I have bought a computer with Windows 7 and I put it in the same workgroup as the other computers of my family. And I have had a lot of trouble with sharing folders over the home network. There's a computer with XP that Windows 7 can see and some days, I can access the shared folders on that computer, but some other days it keeps asking for the Network password . I don't even think I have a network password, whatever I tried to input there, it didn't work(I tried the user and password of the other computer, the ones on my computer, no password, it just says it's wrong and asks for the network password again). I actually never set a network password. Then there's another computer running on Vista. Here, the same problem. Windows 7 can always see Vista, but some days he asks for the network password, some days he doesn't and there's nothing that I can do to control that. The XP and Vista can both see my computer and access the shared folders with no problem.
I have checked on http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Networking-home-computers-running-different-versions-of-Windows the ports, even if I have Windows Firewall and the necessary ports are open(except for the ones for domain, which I opened, checked to see if anything changes, same problem, closed them back).
In the network settings, the network detection is on, the folder and printer sharing is on, public folder sharing is on, ask password for sharing id off.
I really don't know what to do anymore. Can anyone please help me?
