Windows 7 has the new "HomeGroups" network system, but it can operate in "legacy mode" as well. Generally, with all versions of Windows, newer versions of Windows can connect to shares on older versions of Windows, without much difficulty, but the reverse is not always true. Microsoft changes their CIFS stack with each new release, generally upping the default security level.
Try the suggestions above. Make sure the Workgroup name is the same on all machines. Make sure they are using the right username and password to connect to the machine (if you have the same username, but different passwords, that will stop you right there.) If all else fails, try connecting the USB drive to an older OS (Vista? XP?) and share from that OS and Windows 7 will probably be able to connect to that older OS' share. Chris On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Don Delp <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Jim Peterson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 18:26 -0500, Howard White wrote: > > > > I keep telling folks that I don't do Windows. I do like to eat, > however... > > > > New customer, prospective phone system sale. Recently added new office > > computers, but not total replacement. They have an external, USB > > connected, hard disk that they wish to share; connected to the new W7 > > machine. W7 machines may get the share but the remaining Vista machine > > cannot. Much Google searching has yet to yield conclusive answers; many > > posts complaining of same problem, uh, differently. I have neither > > Vista nor W7 with which to test. > > > > Before I came home to research, I suggested they connect the USB hard > > drive to the Vista machine to see if W7 could link to that. Some > > postings seem to support this hypothesis. > > > > Would appreciate more than wild guesses as a basis for solution. > > > > Howard > > > > > > Win7 uses a new "feature" called HomeGroups. These have their own name & > > password-type authentication to "ensure" that the requesting machine has > > rights to whatever share is on the Win7 box. You might want to check and > see > > if this has been set up on the Win7 box as this could lock out the > others. > > > > Jim Peterson > > Windows tends to cache authentication for things like this. If you're > tweaking user/pass to sync everyone up, it might still fail. In this > case, the command "net use" might come in handy. > Maybe something like: > net use \\bobworkstation\officejet /del > net use \\bobworkstation\officejet /user:bob > > Still, even if you do everything correctly, different versions of > Windows tend to be super fickle about mixing. > > -- > Don Delp > 618.616.2993 > http://nesman.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
