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Avraham Hanadari
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      12-05-2009

I have an existing wireless home network for file sharing and what not.
It was no trick to get this working with XP. Vista was problematical,
but is now working. How can I connect my Win7 to the home wireless
network? I've been searching and experimenting for days, with no
success. This is not a Home-group solution, since I have but one Win7
machine.

Can someone walk me through the setup?

Thanks in advance!

Avraham
 
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Avraham Hanadari
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      12-05-2009
Avraham Hanadari wrote:
> I have an existing wireless home network for file sharing and what not.
> It was no trick to get this working with XP. Vista was problematical,
> but is now working. How can I connect my Win7 to the home wireless
> network? I've been searching and experimenting for days, with no
> success. This is not a Home-group solution, since I have but one Win7
> machine.
>
> Can someone walk me through the setup?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Avraham


OOPS! Seems one of my attempts succeeded. When I rechecked Libraries,
there was a Network icon. Now I have to discover why others in the home
network cannot see Win7.

Avraham
 
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Avraham Hanadari
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      12-05-2009
Avraham Hanadari wrote:

>
> OOPS! Seems one of my attempts succeeded. When I rechecked Libraries,
> there was a Network icon. Now I have to discover why others in the home
> network cannot see Win7.
>
> Avraham


An icon shows up for the Win7 machine in XP and Vista, but in each case
a permission window appears requesting a user name and a password. I
type in my account name as well as "user". I have no password. I am
still not granted permission to access Win7 from XP and Vista machines.

Avraham
 
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Gordon
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      12-05-2009

"Avraham Hanadari" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>
>>
>> OOPS! Seems one of my attempts succeeded. When I rechecked Libraries,
>> there was a Network icon. Now I have to discover why others in the home
>> network cannot see Win7.
>>
>> Avraham

>
> An icon shows up for the Win7 machine in XP and Vista, but in each case a
> permission window appears requesting a user name and a password. I type in
> my account name as well as "user". I have no password. I am still not
> granted permission to access Win7 from XP and Vista machines.
>
> Avraham


Then add a password and see if that works.

 
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Michael Walraven
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      12-05-2009
Step 1:

Set up accounts on each machine with the same name AND password.

Michael


"Avraham Hanadari" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>
>>
>> OOPS! Seems one of my attempts succeeded. When I rechecked Libraries,
>> there was a Network icon. Now I have to discover why others in the home
>> network cannot see Win7.
>>
>> Avraham

>
> An icon shows up for the Win7 machine in XP and Vista, but in each case a
> permission window appears requesting a user name and a password. I type in
> my account name as well as "user". I have no password. I am still not
> granted permission to access Win7 from XP and Vista machines.
>
> Avraham


 
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      12-05-2009
Gordon wrote:
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> "Avraham Hanadari" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> OOPS! Seems one of my attempts succeeded. When I rechecked Libraries,
>>> there was a Network icon. Now I have to discover why others in the
>>> home network cannot see Win7.
>>>
>>> Avraham

>>
>> An icon shows up for the Win7 machine in XP and Vista, but in each
>> case a permission window appears requesting a user name and a
>> password. I type in my account name as well as "user". I have no
>> password. I am still not granted permission to access Win7 from XP and
>> Vista machines.
>>
>> Avraham

>
> Then add a password and see if that works.


I added a password. It didn't make any difference.
Avraham

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Avraham Hanadari
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      12-05-2009
Michael Walraven wrote:
> Step 1:
>
> Set up accounts on each machine with the same name AND password.
>
> Michael


All machines are already linked on the same work group and none has a
password. They all work EXCEPT Win7 which refuses entry. I have since
added a password to the Win7 machine and tried access from the others.
No joy!

I remember I had a similar problem with Vista when we first used it.
Unfortunately we don't remember what we did to overcome the MS paranoia.
And now they've changed vocabulary so HomeGroup means a Win7 only
grouping and Work Group is nowhere to be found. What were they thinking?

Avraham

>
>
> "Avraham Hanadari" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> OOPS! Seems one of my attempts succeeded. When I rechecked Libraries,
>>> there was a Network icon. Now I have to discover why others in the
>>> home network cannot see Win7.
>>>
>>> Avraham

>>
>> An icon shows up for the Win7 machine in XP and Vista, but in each
>> case a permission window appears requesting a user name and a
>> password. I type in my account name as well as "user". I have no
>> password. I am still not granted permission to access Win7 from XP and
>> Vista machines.
>>
>> Avraham

>



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Michael Walraven
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      12-05-2009
Set up the machines that are attempting to access the windows 7 machine with
PASSWORDS.
On the Windows 7 machine make sure that there is an account there with the
same name and PASSWORD as the machine that is trying to access the Windows 7
machine.

You need parallel accounts on all machines WITH PASSWORDS.

Yes there are ways to do it without passwords but it is a lot easier to do
it the expected way.

Michael


"Avraham Hanadari" <> wrote in message
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> Michael Walraven wrote:
>> Step 1:
>>
>> Set up accounts on each machine with the same name AND password.
>>
>> Michael

>
> All machines are already linked on the same work group and none has a
> password. They all work EXCEPT Win7 which refuses entry. I have since
> added a password to the Win7 machine and tried access from the others. No
> joy!
>
> I remember I had a similar problem with Vista when we first used it.
> Unfortunately we don't remember what we did to overcome the MS paranoia.
> And now they've changed vocabulary so HomeGroup means a Win7 only grouping
> and Work Group is nowhere to be found. What were they thinking?
>
> Avraham
>
>>
>>
>> "Avraham Hanadari" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> OOPS! Seems one of my attempts succeeded. When I rechecked Libraries,
>>>> there was a Network icon. Now I have to discover why others in the home
>>>> network cannot see Win7.
>>>>
>>>> Avraham
>>>
>>> An icon shows up for the Win7 machine in XP and Vista, but in each case
>>> a permission window appears requesting a user name and a password. I
>>> type in my account name as well as "user". I have no password. I am
>>> still not granted permission to access Win7 from XP and Vista machines.
>>>
>>> Avraham

>>

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      12-12-2009
Michael Walraven wrote:
> Step 1:
>
> Set up accounts on each machine with the same name AND password.
>
> Michael
>
>
> "Avraham Hanadari" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> OOPS! Seems one of my attempts succeeded. When I rechecked Libraries,
>>> there was a Network icon. Now I have to discover why others in the
>>> home network cannot see Win7.
>>>
>>> Avraham

>>
>> An icon shows up for the Win7 machine in XP and Vista, but in each
>> case a permission window appears requesting a user name and a
>> password. I type in my account name as well as "user". I have no
>> password. I am still not granted permission to access Win7 from XP and
>> Vista machines.
>>
>> Avraham

>


My son came by and tweaked something. He's not sure what, but now the
system is connected.

Avraham
 
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