I've had this annoying issue in the past, and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

 

I was able to see my win7 machine from my win xp box before I installed our new router.

 

Now it's not working.

 

Strangely enough Synergy+ (my over-the-network kvm setup) is working fine....

 

Anyway, things I've done:

 

1) WORKGROUP is set on both

2) firewall on or off doesn't seem to make any difference

3) Shared folders on Win7 pc are set to Everyone + read/write permissions

4) Pinging the win7 box from winxp works fine

5)In case it matters IPv6 is disabled on my router...

 

It's probably some stupid simple step I missed... any ideas?

 

p.s. my router is WNDR4000 aka Netgear N750

Both computers workgroups have the same name?

Both computers workgroups have the same name?

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Yes as I wrote above...both on workgroup.

you can ping from one box to the other? What happens when you try to use IP address to hit the shared folder? Example:

127.0.0.1\folder

 

does that work? All I have ever had to do from XP (client) to a Win7 ("Server") box was use the IP address. Go to \\Win7_IP\folder which causes a pop-up asking for a user / pass combo. you can create that first on the Win7 Box. Or, if you are OK with sharing for "all" users, go into the share on Win7 and make the "everyone" group to have full rights to that folder.

 

I try not to mess with named clients on my home networks, always use IP since I static set them anyway.

you can ping from one box to the other? What happens when you try to use IP address to hit the shared folder? Example:

127.0.0.1\folder

 

does that work? All I have ever had to do from XP (client) to a Win7 ("Server") box was use the IP address. Go to \\Win7_IP\folder which causes a pop-up asking for a user / pass combo. you can create that first on the Win7 Box. Or, if you are OK with sharing for "all" users, go into the share on Win7 and make the "everyone" group to have full rights to that folder.

 

I try not to mess with named clients on my home networks, always use IP since I static set them anyway.

 

I can ping each fine. I'm not sure what you mean by "IP Address to hit shared folder"

 

Yep I've set "everyone" with read/write permissions. Last time when I had this issue I forgot that part... but it's set properly now, and still it doesn't work!

go to the "server" box, open a command prompt; go to start button, run cmd, enter. Once that is open, type ipconfig and hit enter. That will give you an IP address.

 

Then, from other box, open a windows browser. Try to browse to \\ip_address_you_got_above\shared_folder

 

It should prompt for a user/password combo, unless you already have everyone enabled, then it should open the folder.

Suddenly everything is working again... I didn't change anything...

 

Now I won't know what the heck was wrong argh!