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wonderland, hello. Which guide did you follow? Can you provide a link to it please?

You won't see the XP system on the Windows 7 system unless you have enabled File and Printer Sharing on the XP system and shared some folder or printers. This isn't shown in the article.

If the Network Wizard allows you to enable File and Printer Sharing, then that should work. What I would do is modify the connection properties so that File and Printer Sharing is bound to the adapter that you are planning to share with. Either way, once File and Printer sharing is enabled, the service should be running in services.msc. You should not need to start the Service manually.

Also, make sure that you don't have a software firewall that is blocking File and Printer sharing traffic (SMB).

So, if you open Network Connections from Control Panel or My Network Places, you will see the list of network connections, such as "Local Area Connection", "Wireless Network Connection", and so on. Choose one of these connections and select Properties. This Properties sheet will show you the network adapter being used for the connection under "Connect using", and the network protocols bound to the connection (aka bindings) under "This connection uses the following items". You need to be sure that File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks is in the list of bindings and selected.

I'm not sure which services are needed either, but my guess would be that you at least need Computer Browser, Server, Workstation, maybe Network Location Awareness, maybe Network Access Protection (SP3) and all of their dependencies.

Also, do you have Password Protected Sharing enabled in Windows 7? If so, you will need to provide user credentials to the Windows 7 system in order to access it.

hi wonderland
the tut you followed is good but it was failed to mention what you MUST have on XP to be seen in Vista/7.
You need to see install the LLTD Responder on your xp. BUT if you have xpSP3 it would NOT install either so you have to extract the downloaded exe file and install manually the LLTD once you do that and confirm it that you have an entry "Link Layer Topology Responder" (I do not have access to XP so I am not sure what is the exact line)

how to extract the exe file??
Rename the WindowsXP-KB922120-v5-x86-ENU.exe to lltd.exe and copy it to C: drive.
Go to command prompt and type
cd c:\
Then
c:\lltd.exe -x:c:\lltd

you should a file name lltd on C drive. the folder named SP2QFE and another folder IP are the one you are after.

Go to your connection properties and INSTALL ---> PROTOCOL ---> HAVE DISK---->point to C:\lltd\sp2qfe\ip
It should install the lltd and you should see a new entry "Link Lyar Topology Responder".
Restart your computer and you should see XP in vista/7..

anything else just ask......

oh , when I try to connect to xp from win 7 i get "windows cannot access \\RIRARDSPC" check the spelling of the name. Otherwise there might be a problem with your network To try to identify and resolve network problems, Click Diagnose.

update, I can see windows xp on my windows 7 machine ( laptop was connected to wrong network) , can't see windows 7 on xp pc though .... and can't connect from windows 7 to xp :(

hi again
lets start from the scratch.. i mean from Bottom. and then you can secure it once it is working.
please excuse for some obvious instructions ;)

Windows 7:
STEP 1:
Add new user in User Accounts
USER "geek" and
password: 123.
STEP 2:
Go to network sharing center "View you active networks" click on it to change it to PUBLIC NETWROK (I know but hey you wanna see if it works first huh? then you can secure it anytime..).
OK then click on "Change advance sharing settings" on the left menu "TURN ON PASSWORD PROTECTED SHARING" and use 128 bit encryption too.. SAVE

STEP 3:
Then Go to My computer Properties and NOTE or Change workgroup NAME (say WONDERLAND).

STEP 4:
Make a folder on Desktop, put some files in it. then right click on folder--properties---sharing---Advance sharing---CHECK sharing-- Apply--OK.

STEP 5: CLOSE this computer..

WIN XP:
STEP 1:
open windows explorer.. Tools---FOLDER options---VIEW---CHECK LAST ONE use simple file sharing---OK

STEP 2:
Make a folder on desktop put some files in it and right click Share...

STEP 3:
(Recommended)
Go to network connection in control panel---Run Networks setup wizard--Next--Next---- OTHER(if you are using router)---First one--NEXT--check name--workgroup name "WONDERLAND"
OR
My computer---properties---computer name-- change to "WONDERLAND"
Restart, START Win7 while xp restarting.

Win7 should be able to access XP and from XP it would ask for login info enter "geek", "123"

Report back...

hey ashi, now after restarting , I can't see windows xp pc on windows7 .. :(

No I don't see win7 in xp.. I restarted xp again and I can see it in windows 7 now but still can't access it though