Workgroup Network Problems

[Cabalo]

What about this?

[Appzalien]

I vaugely remember something from my short stint with 7 (I hated it), something about ipv6 being enabled on 7 made it impossible to connect properly. Or maybe it was ipv6 on vista not able to connect, I can't remember. But one of them has ipv6 enabled by default and it causes problems with other machine that don't. Supposedly you can turn it on on the others that don't or turn it off on the ones its active on. I turned it off.

[darkstate01]

Then i think its a permissions problem,just add the user/computer to the ntfs-also make sure you have aloud enough people to connect at 1 time look at the "Limit the number of simultaneous users".
It shouldn't be that hard to solve.

[darkstate01]

Did it solve the problem? or have you solved it yourself? If so what was the problem and how did you solve it.
Curious thats all.

[tesco]

Nahh didn't solve it.
It can't be a permission problem, the vista machine can access the win7 machines.
I also tried disabling IPv6 but that didn't help. Haven't restarted since then though.

[backlash]

have you tried using the run command like this:

\\computername

to access the other computers?

[darkstate01]

You beat me to that one.
start-run-\\computername\sharedfolder then put you name and pass in and see what it spits back at ya.
Don't give up, i like a challenge.

[tesco]

You beat me to that one.
start-run-\\computername\sharedfolder then put you name and pass in and see what it spits back at ya.
Don't give up, i like a challenge.

That doesn't work.

This is starting to bug me again.
My sister just got a laptop and I'm trying to help her transfer all of her music and other files from her pc to laptop but the PC cannot be accessed. It was "computer 2" in my original post.

So to recap...
Laptop 1
Windows 7

Laptop1 can access computer 1 because it gets a password prompt, but computer 1 cannot access laptop1.
Computer 2 cannot access the laptop OR be access by the laptop.
Computer 3 communicates normally with the laptop (no problem there).


I think there could be a service or something else disabled that shouldn't be.
I'm going to probably format computer2 and reinstall windows7 on it, then troubleshoot from there to see what caused the issue so that I can fix my own computer (computer1).

[Cabalo]

You don't happen to be using some vLite custom version of windows on any of those PCs ?

[tesco]

You don't happen to be using some vLite custom version of windows on any of those PCs ?

Nope I've never used one of those in my life.
I like to do the customizing myself.

They're even runnning different releases of windows7, computer2 is running the beta and computer1 is running something from around april 2010 (one of those monthly releases with the integrated updates).