Networking with XP computers

My husband is buying a new computer with Windows 7 installed. The other
computers on our small home network have XP. Will I have any problems
getting all the computers to work well together on the network?

On 07 Jun 2011, sharonf <> wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

> My husband is buying a new computer with Windows 7 installed. The
> other computers on our small home network have XP. Will I have any
> problems getting all the computers to work well together on the
> network?

I can't say he won't have any problems, but I can say that *I* don't
have any problems. I have XP, Vista, and Win7 computers on my home
network, and they all interoperate well.

Don't try to use Windows 7's "Homegroup" feature - that's only for a
network that's entirely Win7.

sharonf wrote:
> My husband is buying a new computer with Windows 7 installed. The other
> computers on our small home network have XP. Will I have any problems
> getting all the computers to work well together on the network?

Have you ever known a computer, that didn't put up a fight ? :-)

Best advice would be, to find one of those web sites, that
discusses mixed networking, and what to expect.

For example, I tried a search in a search engine on

"networking windows 7 with windows xp"

and got this as my first result. Notice, the first thing they
address, is the advice Nil gave you.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...dows-7-and-xp/

The best part of pages like that, is they're filled with user comments,
so you're bound to find plenty of examples of things that "blew up".

My experience here, between the WinXP machine I'm typing this
on, and my Windows 7 laptop (currently sleeping), is that one
day file sharing would work, and the next day it wouldn't. And
rebooting didn't help. I didn't push my luck, and just walked
a USB flash stick between machines :-) Sneakernet, is the
best net... It just wasn't worth my time, to figure out why...

Paul

"sharonf" <> wrote in message
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> My husband is buying a new computer with Windows 7 installed. The other
> computers on our small home network have XP. Will I have any problems
> getting all the computers to work well together on the network?

Like Nil said, disable Homegroup on Win7, and it should work fine. I have
multiple XP machines and 1 Win7 machine networking perfectly happy together,
wired and wireless.

On 6/7/2011 10:03 PM, Nil wrote:
> On 07 Jun 2011, sharonf<> wrote in
> alt.windows7.general:
>
>> My husband is buying a new computer with Windows 7 installed. The
>> other computers on our small home network have XP. Will I have any
>> problems getting all the computers to work well together on the
>> network?
>
> I can't say he won't have any problems, but I can say that *I* don't
> have any problems. I have XP, Vista, and Win7 computers on my home
> network, and they all interoperate well.
>
> Don't try to use Windows 7's "Homegroup" feature - that's only for a
> network that's entirely Win7.

Okay I got the computer today but an having a problem setting up the
network. I am not using Homegroup. I can see the XP computers from the
Windows 7 machine, but the XP machines still can't see the Windows 7
machine.

On 6/8/2011 8:52 AM, KCB wrote:
>
>
> "sharonf" <> wrote in message
> news:4deeece3$0$12494$...
>> My husband is buying a new computer with Windows 7 installed. The
>> other computers on our small home network have XP. Will I have any
>> problems getting all the computers to work well together on the network?
>
> Like Nil said, disable Homegroup on Win7, and it should work fine. I
> have multiple XP machines and 1 Win7 machine networking perfectly happy
> together, wired and wireless.

I am using wired for now but I must be doing something wrong. My XP
computers still can't wee windows 7 Machine.

On 08 Jun 2011, sharonf <> wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

> Okay I got the computer today but an having a problem setting up
> the network. I am not using Homegroup. I can see the XP computers
> from the Windows 7 machine, but the XP machines still can't see
> the Windows 7 machine.

You really need to supply some details about your setup.

Wild stab in the dark: You need to turn on sharing in the Win7 machine
and (optionally) share something.

All should be part of the same Workgroup.

On 09/06/2011 03:14, sharonf wrote:
> On 6/8/2011 8:52 AM, KCB wrote:
>>
>>
>> "sharonf" <> wrote in message
>> news:4deeece3$0$12494$...
>>> My husband is buying a new computer with Windows 7 installed. The
>>> other computers on our small home network have XP. Will I have any
>>> problems getting all the computers to work well together on the network?
>>
>> Like Nil said, disable Homegroup on Win7, and it should work fine. I
>> have multiple XP machines and 1 Win7 machine networking perfectly happy
>> together, wired and wireless.
>
> I am using wired for now but I must be doing something wrong. My XP
> computers still can't wee windows 7 Machine.

There are a lot of possible fixes for this (should be a simple
issue, but it *does* cause problems for *lots* of folk, even those
who are very used to networking!)
Here are a few things to try first. If these don't work, do as Paul
suggested and google something like "workgroup windows 7 and xp"

First, disable IPv6 on the new Windows 7 machine. Reboot it.
Use 'WORKGROUP' as the workgroup name on all machines.
Change the workgroup name on the Win7 PC to something else,
reboot, change it back to WORKGROUP, reboot again.

HTH,
--
Rob

"sharonf" <> wrote in message
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> On 6/7/2011 10:03 PM, Nil wrote:
>> On 07 Jun 2011, sharonf<> wrote in
>> alt.windows7.general:
>>
>>> My husband is buying a new computer with Windows 7 installed. The
>>> other computers on our small home network have XP. Will I have any
>>> problems getting all the computers to work well together on the
>>> network?
>>
>> I can't say he won't have any problems, but I can say that *I* don't
>> have any problems. I have XP, Vista, and Win7 computers on my home
>> network, and they all interoperate well.
>>
>> Don't try to use Windows 7's "Homegroup" feature - that's only for a
>> network that's entirely Win7.
>
> Okay I got the computer today but an having a problem setting up the
> network. I am not using Homegroup. I can see the XP computers from the
> Windows 7 machine, but the XP machines still can't see the Windows 7
> machine.

You must have an account and a PW on the 7 machine.

On 09 Jun 2011, "Chris S." <> wrote in
alt.windows7.general:

> You must have an account and a PW on the 7 machine.

That may be part of it, but the machines should all still be visible,
even if you don't have permission to connect.