Windows 7 prompts for Network Password when file sharing - please help

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:32:02 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:09:12 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
wrote:

In message
Ken Blake wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:24:36 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:


Also, if the Win 7 computer is set up as a HomeGroup, then the older
systems won't work with it. Set up a regular home network on the Win 7
computer.

A clarification: when you say "regular home network," I assume you
mean what's called a "workgroup."

I'd say it's a poor choice of words.

HomeGroup: Windows 7 only

Workgroup: Win 7 or XP



Sorry, that's not correct. Workgroups can be used on Windows for
Workgroups and Windows NT as well as on Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP,
Vista, and Windows 7. It had long been the standard for peer-to-peer
networking until Windows 7 came out, so calling it "regular" isn't at
all a poor choice of words.

IIRC, Windows 3.1 was called "Windows for Workgroups". 'Nuff said?

And yes, going back a post or three, I did mean "Workgroup". Sorry - it
was a minor brainquake.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:39:08 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:32:02 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:09:12 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
wrote:

In message
Ken Blake wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:24:36 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:


Also, if the Win 7 computer is set up as a HomeGroup, then the older
systems won't work with it. Set up a regular home network on the Win 7
computer.

A clarification: when you say "regular home network," I assume you
mean what's called a "workgroup."

I'd say it's a poor choice of words.

HomeGroup: Windows 7 only

Workgroup: Win 7 or XP



Sorry, that's not correct. Workgroups can be used on Windows for
Workgroups and Windows NT as well as on Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP,
Vista, and Windows 7. It had long been the standard for peer-to-peer
networking until Windows 7 came out, so calling it "regular" isn't at
all a poor choice of words.

IIRC, Windows 3.1 was called "Windows for Workgroups". 'Nuff said?


No, you're thinking of Windows 3.11. But even that, despite the many
people who thought 3.11 meant WFWG, wasn't just WFWG. There was *both*
a regular Windows 3.11 and WFWG 3.11.



And yes, going back a post or three, I did mean "Workgroup". Sorry - it
was a minor brainquake.


Yes, I was sure you knew that.

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:58:58 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

IIRC, Windows 3.1 was called "Windows for Workgroups". 'Nuff said?


No, you're thinking of Windows 3.11. But even that, despite the many
people who thought 3.11 meant WFWG, wasn't just WFWG. There was *both*
a regular Windows 3.11 and WFWG 3.11.

Come on, it was only a 0.32% error!

Yes, you're right - I had WFWG 3.11, but I didn't remember the
distinction, so many years later...

But then there's the point I was trying to make: in Windows, "workgroup"
is a term that goes back well before the list in the post I replied to.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:34:23 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:58:58 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

IIRC, Windows 3.1 was called "Windows for Workgroups". 'Nuff said?


No, you're thinking of Windows 3.11. But even that, despite the many
people who thought 3.11 meant WFWG, wasn't just WFWG. There was *both*
a regular Windows 3.11 and WFWG 3.11.

Come on, it was only a 0.32% error!

Yes, you're right - I had WFWG 3.11, but I didn't remember the
distinction, so many years later...


LOL. Many people didn't remember it even way back then.


But then there's the point I was trying to make: in Windows, "workgroup"
is a term that goes back well before the list in the post I replied to.


Yep, I'm with you completely on that.