{"id":2334,"date":"2011-07-26T13:31:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T13:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xctechs.info\/vlogs\/?p=71"},"modified":"2011-07-26T13:31:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T13:31:36","slug":"71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/?p=2334","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Files In Windows 7 and XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sharing Files In Windows 7 and XP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sharing folders between two Windows 7 machines with the new HomeGroup feature is an easy process, but the HomeGroup feature is not compatible with Vista or XP.\u00a0 For this tutorial we are using Windows 7 x64 RC1 and XP Professional SP3 connected through a basic Linksys home wireless router.<\/p>\n<p>First make sure both machines are members of the same Workgroup which by default is named Workgroup.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"workgroup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/workgroup.png\" alt=\"workgroup\" width=\"412\" height=\"455\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the Windows 7 machine go into Control Panel  All Control Panel Items  Network and Sharing Center then click on Change advanced sharing settings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"network and sharing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/networkandsharing.png\" alt=\"network and sharing\" width=\"238\" height=\"82\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"advanced\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/advanced.png\" alt=\"advanced\" width=\"191\" height=\"156\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You will want to verify the following settings under Advanced Sharing Settings for the Home or Work and Public profile.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"home or work settings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/homeorworksettings.png\" alt=\"home or work settings\" width=\"498\" height=\"405\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want any user to have access the public shares turn off password protection.\u00a0 This is located in Advanced Sharing Settings toward the bottom of the list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"turn off pw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/turnoffpw.png\" alt=\"turn off pw\" width=\"477\" height=\"160\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to keep it enabled make sure there is a log in account for the other XP machines and they have a password.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"create pw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/createpw.png\" alt=\"create pw\" width=\"447\" height=\"247\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharing Files In Windows 7 and XP Sharing folders between two Windows 7 machines with the new HomeGroup feature is an easy process, but the HomeGroup feature is not compatible with Vista or XP.\u00a0 For this tutorial we are using Windows 7 x64 RC1 and XP Professional SP3 connected through a basic Linksys home wireless &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[763],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","tag-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xctechs.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}