Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. You are on the right track. The situation is with windows 8 and windows 7 use homegroups which is a user friendly trust set up between both machines and can share files etc between both machines.
This functionality is not supported in WindowsXP unfortunately. Set the DHCP pool to begin at Give all PCs the same subnet e. Do you mean that the two computers cannot ping each other? Or, it is that one computer cannot access the network share in the other.
Meanwhile, we can refer to the following articles to setup the network share:. Share files and folders on a network or a shared PC. Why can't I connect to other PCs? Hope this helps. Hi, I've tried this, just as you said, but no success.
I'm able from my win8 pc to see and access files on my xp comps, and can see and access files in the win8 public and default users folders from my xp pc.
But, I'm trying to share a folder i created on the C root drive called "mydata". I've completely disabled the uac in the registry; i've set sharing for the mydata folder directly as sharing the root drive fails with error messages ; all the comps have the same workgroup name; even though the uac is disabled and i am logged on as hidden administrator i still get the error message " blahblahwin8 is not accessible.
You might not have permission to use this network blahblah Access is denied ". It must be something about permissions as i can access win8 user data files, but why not this folder which is only data too? I can't think how to give more permissions than i have. Any ideas - i've spent most of every day for the past two weeks trying to get my new win8 pc to work as i want it, so i can get reliable file sharing.
I don't want to change the name or location of the mydata folder as it suits me for data backup and consolidation. PS I should have said i'm trying to get this over a 'private' wifi network, home workgroup called - "WORKGROUP", i've disabled password protected sharing for private, guest or public, all networks, I have enabled file sharing for devices that use 40 or 56 bit encryption, and I've turned ON sharing for public folders. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro?
Windows Server TechCenter. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. First, follow all the directions in this Microsoft support article to make sure the basics are covered.
Oddly enough, even though I get the error when clicking on the View workgroup computers link, I was able to access the shared folders on my Windows 10 machine. My Windows 10 machine logs in using a Microsoft account, so when it asked for the username and password, I entered my email address and password, which worked.
It finally worked after I did two things. First, I clicked on the Setup a home or small office network link that you see in the screenshot above. Also, be sure to checkout my complete guide to troubleshooting homegroups in Windows. Founder of Help Desk Geek and managing editor.
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