Thus the button is grayed out. Great tutorial, I have a laptop running 7 that exists on a work domain it is primarily a work laptop. My personal laptop is running Vista and needless to say I would like to keep it off of the domain. Is there a possible work-around for this case? Thanks for any help you might have. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Trouble: Have you been facing issues in file sharing between Windows 7 and Windows Vista?
Fix: To enable File sharing between windows computers you need to take care of two key things: 1. All the Windows computers should have a unique computer name 2. Right Click on Computer icon in Windows 7 and click Properties 2.
To change the name and workgroup ID, click the Change settings button 3. It's one of my vista computers that is not working properly, and the problem seems to be the service that connects the IP address nnnn. When w7 can see the vista computer name, but when I click on the computer name, it cannot get to the computer at all Enter Network Password box.
However, when I am on w7 and simply access the vista computer by its IP address, I can access all its shared folders, no problem. Details: v1 vista machine 1 can access shared files on v2. No "Enter Network Password" prompt. I have enabled password sharing, and disabled it. No effect. I have turned guest account on on both machines. I have turned firewalls Norton Internet Security on and off on both machines. Workgroups are set to identical value on all machines.
How can I make w7 access v1? Thanks, Mark Original Title: Windows 7 cannot access vista. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 0. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi, Troubleshoot Shared Folders. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
In reply to StanySteve's post on August 14, RobBobRR: Thanks for the links, but unfortunately, they did not help. Workgroups, usernames, passwords are all the same. How do I get w7 to properly recognize the unfriendly vista's name? The problem is that when I try to access a shared folder on the Win 7 computer from the Vista computer I get an error window popping up that says:.
You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The network location cannot be reached. For information about network troubleshooting, see Windows help.
I can get to the same shared folder from the XP computer. I can also get to shared folders on the Vista computer from the XP computer. The folder on the Win 7 computer is set up to be shared by Everyone. At this stage, I suggest you temporarily turn off firewall on Windows 7 machine and the target machine for a test. If the issue persists, please try following steps.
Right-click on the file "Hosts" without quotations and choose Delete. Click Continue to confirm the deletion and verify the administrator permission. Click the Start Button, type "cmd" without quotation marks , in the search result list, right click on Cmd. Click Continue button to verify the administrator permission. If the network folder still cannot be accessed, please collect the following log file when the symptom occurs.
Collect the Netmon trace. Download NetMon3. Launch NetMon3. In the Microsoft Network Monitor 3. In the new tab, select all the Network Adapters in the Select Networks window. Try to download the large file. When it failed, go to step 7. Then, please upload it. After analyzing the log file, I suggest you perform a Clean Boot to check the result.
I'm looking for some information about how to restore SMB or how to fix this problem, but i didn't find something to help. So, anyone could help me to restore the smb service? PS: My win7 is x64 and all others machines in my network are win7 x86, and only the win7 x64 had this problem two times - Are there any related information about this issue with x64? The first time that it happens, I re-installed everything, but now I want really fix it. Welcome to the club.
I'm having the same problem and have been researching it all day. Try this out: create a folder called "test" on your C drive and share it. I wonder if Microsoft knows about this. There is no report or article on this in Microsoft web site too. I have raised another question thread on this with Vista in the title to highlight that this is not just happening to Windows 7. Start Registry Editor. To do this, click Start. Collapse this imageExpand this image. Locate and then click following registry subkey:.
Locate the LmCompatibilityLevel registry value. If the registry value is not present, follow these steps to create it:. Exit Registry Editor and restart the computer. Here's some more info that I found on my problem:.
I had a similar problem like this Dan. Are you using Hyper-V or VMware by any chance? Because that's what caused the issue for me - Hyper-V created a virtual network connection which messed up the physical NIC local area connection. Could that be creating some issues you think? And can I not have the best of both worlds, i. LAN access and Remote Access? If not, let me know what you did to remove the virtual network.
I always end up reimaging the laptops because people need them back. This has to be some sort of bug in the OS. Hasn't anyone opened a support case MS so they can do some low level debugging? I managed to solve this on the machine I was working on. Tried this on another machine and it works for the first few times, but after a while it just doesn't solve the problem anymore. I don't understand this, there is no pattern or apparent cause. The only "clue" I have is that this has never happened to sales people, which leads me to believe it might be something the technical guys use vpn clients?
Still no way to connect to shared on the same network, all other computers 3 on the network can acces shared and have the same configuration wim image My IP Network works fine, but accessing shares of other computers does not work anymore. Maybe someone can tell how to re-install all network protocols from LanmanWorkstation and all the rights handling instances above. Any help welcome. I have a Windows 7 ultimate that cannot access any file shares on my network, either by name or IP address.
This was working and I have followed all the suggestions from the NTLM, to removing ALL my networking components and reinstalling, to disabling Windows Firewall to removing my antivirus, and I am unable to system restore back to when it was working.
I had the same issue between two Windows 7 Ultimate computers, with advanced sharing enabled. It was only a temporary success: after restarting the sharing box, I can't access it again, I get an Access denied error. Was is same boat as most users here, had tried everything, repeatedly, except the quoted.
This worked!
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