Thanks for the responses. It turns out that all I needed to do was to "enable file sharing for devices that use 40 or 56 bit encryption".
It took a LONG time to find that answer. I was really surprised how many people had different problems and solutions for Win7 and XP networking, because until now I've been REALLY enjoying Win7 after reluctantly moving away from XP. Anyway, all good now. Thanks again for the responses. Cheers Dave On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:27 PM, James Chapman-Smith < [email protected]> wrote: > It’s an NTLM v2 authentication issue. Windows 7 only allows NTLM v2 and > not LM (LAN MANAGER) authentication. You need to “dumb down” Windows 7 to > make it work. > > > > See > http://serverfault.com/questions/69049/system-error-58-while-accessing-shares-on-win-7-from-xp/69113#69113 > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *David Burstin > *Sent:* Saturday, 19 June 2010 21:32 > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* [OT] Trouble setting up workgroup at home with XP and Win 7 > machines > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've had a workgroup running at home for years without problems. I recently > replaced an XP machine with a windows 7 one and can't get them to see each > other on the network. I've done heaps of Google searches and am overwhelmed > with the amount of (mis)information out there. So far nothing has helped. > > > > For now I'm just trying to have 2 machines in the network (small steps). > The first is called MEDIA (it's an XP Media Center), the second is called > MOTHER (Win 7). The workgroup is called VALHALLA. > > (I did have a third machine - a Windows 7 laptop. It had no problem seeing > MOTHER. It's turned off while I try to get the desktops working). > > > > From MOTHER, if I click on Network, I can see the MEDIA machine, however > when I click on it I get "Windows cannot access \\MEDIA. Check the spelling > of the name. Otherwise there may be a problem with your network....". > Clicking Diagnose gets me nowhere. > > > > From MEDIA I can't even see MOTHER. > > > > That's the basic info. Not sure what else to tell you, but am happy to > answer any questions. > > > > Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. > > > > Cheers > > Dave >
