simple file sharing

[Metspitzer]

I don't know anything about networks except I have one. I guess that
makes me the administrator. I have a main machine with Windows 7 Home
Premium on it. I have a laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium on it. I
have a spare machine that has XP.

My nephew was over and wanted to watch a movie. (anything to keep him
entertained works for me) I have the movie on an external hard drive
in the main machine. I thought the simple thing to do was just share
the drive and let him use the laptop to watch the movie. I tried
sharing the drive. After several attempts with one error message
saying to contact the administrator, I decided that the simple thing
was to just unplug the drive and give it to my nephew to plug in the
laptop. He is sitting with the laptop in his lap and the portable
drive plugged in so if he moves he has to drag the portable drive with
him. (at least he is not complaining)

Now I am trying to figure out how to share another folder to just be
able to train myself on file sharing. I picked a folder and sharing
options of "share with home group\read write". I go into the bedroom
and the XP machine doesn't even report the folder I am trying to
share. When I get back and check the folder share options it has
reverted back to "nobody"

I do not work for the CIA or the FBI. I really don't care if my
neighbor down the street is accessing the movie folder without my
permission since I have no idea how to grant permission anyway.

Any domain, workgroup, or homegroup was set up as the default as I
have no idea what any of these are either.

Is there a way to have Windows 7 use "simple file sharing" like XP
did.
http://i.imgur.com/VYWeV.jpg (screenshot)

 

[Metspitzer]

I found this:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/...mputers-running-different-versions-of-Windows
This should do it.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Thanks for sharing that info.

I was particularly happy to learn that some advice I've given here is
actually correct

But now I know why it's correct, and also why it could be unnecessary.

In a non-Homegroup system, I usually advise people with networking
trouble to set up a user account with the same name and password on all
of the machines. Now I know that password sharing is on by default and
can be turned off, or at least if the boxes don't all have the same
password, you can still get there by typing a username and password
that exists (and that you know!) on the other machine.

 

[Paul]

I found this:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/...mputers-running-different-versions-of-Windows
This should do it.

Post back if you were successful. I want to hear
how easy it was

Paul

 

[Metspitzer]

It doesn't work for me. I checked my Win7 and everything was already
default as the video except I turned off password protected sharing.

It looks like it would allow me to share my Windows folder or any
folder that was created when I installed windows, but I can right
click on my \wallpaper folder and grant permission to home/read/write
but it reverts to "nobody"