Comments on: Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP

By: Deb

Deb — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:20:50 +0000

I was trying to print wirh my printer hooked to xp from a computer running windows 7. I followed all the above directions. It keep saying it could not find the driver. After many hours I got it to print by adding a new port: Open ports in the printer on windows 7. add new port on local port, in enter a new port type: \\name of your xp computer\printer share name.

By: frank

frank — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:23:14 +0000

My old Brother MFC had network and USB connections. I couldn’t install the MFC from its original CD on my Win 7, since there are no suitable drivers, so my other machines (XP) are connected to the MFC on the network but the Win 7 is connected by USB.

I also found as others have that the Win 7 and the XP machines all have to have Everyone with Full Control in folder share settings and in advanced settings. Then everything works in both directions.

Thanks MysticGeek and everyone else.

By: anthony72

anthony72 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:03:53 +0000

Does this work if i am using Windows XP Media Center Edition

By: peter3

peter3 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:53:18 +0000

The only thing that I could make work was installing printers as LOCAL printers rather than NETWORK
printers. After finding that solution, everything else worked. Just create a new PORT named as
\\\
And don’t forget the Windows Update button if you can’t find your printer in the list. My ancient HP
and Lexmark laser’s were in the updated lists
But this is a good start.

By: martyn

martyn — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:50:00 +0000

Thanks, really great. Actually I had nearly got there myself but because the password protection sharing needed to be scrolled to find, I didn’t see it. It should be at the top!

By: Ankit Upadhyay

Ankit Upadhyay — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:31:27 +0000

Hey man, this is amazing stuff !! I only have one problem with this. I can access all my windows 7 laptop data from widnows xp ; however I cannot access windows xp data from my windows 7 machine. I can see the windows xp machine but i cannot access it.

How can I solve that ?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers.

Ankit.

By: jim

jim — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:23:25 +0000

This is wonderful and it all works EXCEPT for …. when i am on one of my XP machines i can see the shared folders but cannot access them. i get the “you might not have pemissions” BS. everythin works fine. printer sharing both ways (win 7 to xp and visa versa) i can also share and access cd driv from xp to win 7 and visa versa. just not the c drive and ny folder on it. i have tryed everything. permissions,security,everything!!! please help!!!

By: AmishCake

AmishCake — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:44:49 +0000

I was having all the same troubles getting my XP machines connected to my new Windows 7 machine. It could “see” them but not access them. I figured out that the trouble was being caused by Symantec. Once I turned it off, it could access the XP machines immediately. Now to configure an anti-virus solution that isn’t TOO secure….

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:38:02 +0000

As a few other people have mentioned, the solution to getting my shared folder on the Win7 machine visible on the XP machine was to specifically add the user “Everyone” to the list of people with whom the folder should be shared. Until I did that, I kept getting “unauthorized” error messages when trying to open the folder on the XP machine.

It would be very helpful if the author of this page would update it so that the shared folder is NOT in a sub-directory of the already shared public files but is instead just a normal folder somewhere. And then show the dialog box and options that are necessary to enable sharing of this folder. The existing step just says “here I created a folder called XPSHARE” which is not helpful at all. We need instructions for exactly how to tell Win7 how to share a folder.

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:17:52 +0000

Nodscene
For anyone having problems with sharing an external drive, I’ve found that you can’t share the root of the drive (IE: d:). You must make a folder on the hard drive and then share that. At least that’s how I got it to work. Although I didn’t have that issue when sharing the root of a hard drive installed in my pc.

Thank you!!!! THIS WAS MY ISSUE. WHY CANT WINDOWS 7 SHARE DRIVES??? WTF?

This should be added to the tut stat!