Timeline for Unable to access Windows 7 shared folder with Windows 98
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| Mar 14, 2011 at 21:53 | comment | added | PabloG | @Randolf: the Win7 computer is Pablo4, the Win98 computer is PabloX, the share name is Test, I'm trying to connect via NET USE X: \\192.168.1.105\test or \\pablo4\test, no luck. | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 14:45 | comment | added | Randolf Richardson | How long is the name of your Share? Older versions of Windows sometimes don't fare well with long (or even strange) names. Try keeping it very short. Also, make sure the name of the server computer and the share itself don't match any login names on either computer, and that both computers have different names. | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 12:33 | comment | added | PabloG | @Randolf: yeah, I tried using the server IP instead of the name and disabling the firewall, didn't make any difference. | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 5:17 | comment | added | Randolf Richardson | Another thing to try is accessing the Windows 7 computer by it's IP address. Assuming it's IP address is 10.1.1.7, try this: NET USE X: \\10.1.1.7\Share | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 5:16 | comment | added | Randolf Richardson | Assuming you're behind a hardware firewall already, try disabling the Windows Firewall features on your computers (I think only Windows 7 will have this if I recall correctly), then try again. | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 2:40 | comment | added | PabloG | @Randolf: all my network settings match your link: current profile (Work), Network discovery on, file and printer sharing on, public folder sharing on, media streaming off, password protected sharing off. | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 2:08 | comment | added | Randolf Richardson | There are other settings mentioned in that document; Password Protected Sharing is only one of them. | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 1:35 | comment | added | PabloG | @Randolf: the password protected sharing is off as posted initially. Thanks anyway | |
| Mar 14, 2011 at 1:25 | history | answered | Randolf Richardson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |