Thanks! I had the network defined as "Home". I'll try turning off the firewall on Win7 to see if that does anything positive. (I can't wait for Sunbelt to come out with their 64-bit firewall!)
I guess dig more deeply into the Win7 settings to see if anything other than Media is shared. Thanks again... -- RMc "Joe Tinney" <[email protected]> wrote on 11/23/2009 10:11:22 AM: > The icon you are talking about is for shared media, etc. Sounds like > the Windows 7 machines options for sharing media (in Vista, this > option is controlled from within Media Player > Library > Sharing or > something like that). That is all well and good, but that is really > a function of allowing the two media players and/or centers talking > to each other freely and sharing media. It doesn?t do anything for > your in regards to accessing explicit network shares via Windows Exporer. > > Have you tried turning off the Windows 7 firewall to see if you can > connect then? You may need to put in some rules to allow the Vista > box to connect. > > What have you defined the network connection as: home/work/public? > The firewall settings will be different depending on that choice. > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 11:05 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: A bit OT: home networking quirk > > > Greetings! > > I bought a new laptop that came with Win7 Home Premium. My destkop > box is Vista Home Premium. I decided to "connect" them... > > The Win7 box "sees" the Vista shares (and the printer) just fine. > > The Vista box apparently sees the Win7 box as some sort of media. > When I try to open the Win7 share from Vista, it insists on opening > in Media Player. ("Open with..." is not an option. It also has > some strange little icon which, to my surgically altered eyes, looks > like a little strip of movie film. The local Vista file and folder > icons in the network view show as file and folder icons and not > "media" icons.) > > As far as grabbing bookmarks, etc, from the Vista machine, I can do > that from the Win7 end. Any ideas as to why things are screwy at > the Vista end? (That it is Vista Home Premium is a possible explanation.) > > Thanks! > -- > Richard D. McClary > Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group > > ASPCA® > 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 > Urbana, IL 61802 > > [email protected] > > P: 217-337-9761 > C: 217-417-1182 > F: 217-337-9761 > www.aspca.org > > The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments > hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® > (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named > herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential > information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, > you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, > copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments > hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in > error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently > delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
