On 10/20/2012 11:37 AM, Stewart wrote:
Please excuse if this dealt with already but I cannot get a simple
answer to my problem.
I bought a new desktop one month ago running windows 7 with a 64 bit
processor.
I also have a laptop running windows 7 but with a 32 bit processor.
I have tried all I can think of to get the 2 to interconnect but no
great success. The desktop is wired to the router and the laptop uses
wireless.
I can get the machine to recognise each other and to access the public
folders but not the personal ones. If I go to "NetworkSTEWARTUsers"
then the only 2 available are "Default" and "Public"
obviously I can transfer any folders I want from Stewart to Public and
access them from there but that is just as tedious as copying them to a
flash memory stick or copying to my external hard drive. Note that I
cannot get IPv6 activated so do not want to use Homegroup but Workgroup.
Can anyone tell me how to make my name replace the "Default" or "Public"
user?
Thank you
When I had 'similar' problems I pulled out many hairs for days and
couldn't find anything. Then I came upon an old thread, I think it was
here, that actually solved my problem. I then closed my thread where I
asked for help with the following post. I hope it helps you as much as
it did me.'

After trying many things, I came upon some advice in another thread.
Here's the few lines from 'apuzzler' that fixed the problem.
I spent weeks tearing my hair out over this problem. Our network has a
combination of both XP & Win 7 machines. For your XP machines to see
the Win 7 machines you will have to do the following:

On the Win 7 Machines right click on My Computer and then right click on
the Hard disks you want to share. You will see a box with several tabs.
The two you will need to mess with are Security & Sharing. In
Security you will have to click on the Edit button and add "Everyone"
and then make sure "Everyone" has Full Control, and all the boxes
checked in the box below. In Sharing choose Advanced Sharing, then
Permissions. The only group or names listed in that box should be
"Everyone" (Use the Remove button to rid of any other names or group in
that box and then make sure that Full Control, Change, and Read are all
checked. You will have to go back and forth between the Security and
Sharing a few times to get this straightened out because if it isn't
done in the correct order (and I still haven't figured that out yet) it
won't let you finish. I know that at least once during the process you
will have to go back to the Security tab and remove that line "deny" for
everyone--for some reason that always comes up during this sharing
process and has to be removed (but there will be a line that for
Everyone that allows, so leave it.)

I don't know why you set sharing and then you have to set it again in
another place in a different way. I'm sure someone will say, "oh ya,
that." Actually, I've been communicating with my son on this, and when
I told him, he said something similar, like 'oh, ya, I forgot that one.'
MS keeps redesigning the wheel and adding layers upon layers to do the
same thing.