Thread: Sharing among Windows Vista as well as Windows 7 PCs

Home networks are to a greater extent well admired these days as well as building up your home computers work simultaneously can be a test. Whereas having only PCs with Windows 7 set upped can create your home networking life awfully simple, I'm sure several users yet make use of the earlier computers with older installed OS. And I am going to explain you how to share files as well as folders among Windows Vista as well as Windows 7 based computers. As you'll see, it's not that hard to make them work mutually.

Step 1: Workgroup Must be the same

As the HomeGroup utility is able to operate only on Windows 7 based PCs, you have to make certain that your Windows Vista as well as Windows 7 PCs is in the unchanged workgroup. To confirm this, set off to Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> System on the Windows Vista PCs as well as Control Panel -> System and Security -> System on the Windows 7 PCs. And confirm whether if the workgroup is set the same on each and every PCs.



And in case if the workgroup is not the same, then you must customize it so that it is similar on all PCs.

Step 2: Location Type & Network Profile must be Compatible

Initially, your Windows 7 PCs should make use of the home or else work network locations.

The Windows Vista PCs ought to make use of the secret network location type. You can test if this is the case from Windows Vista's network and sharing center. And if it is not the case, click on the Customize link highlighted under it.



And customize the network location type to private as well as hit on the Next highlighted key.



And you will surely receive a confirmation note that the location type has being customized. Click on Close as well as you ought to be back to the network and sharing center.

And you are surely going to make out that the Sharing and Discovery settings have being modified. In turn for sharing to work with your Windows 7 PCs, there are two settings which must be enabled: network discovery as well as file sharing. Further are being provided as optional.



And if you need to relieve the experience of sharing, you may need to disable the password protected sharing. When enabled, you'll need to enter a user name as well as password every time whenever you need to access a shared folder on the Windows Vista PC. One more thing, that user must be defined on the Windows Vista PC. And if you don’t the user will find it difficult to access the shared folders with a password defined on your Windows 7 PC.

Step 3: Share Files and Folders

The further step is to share files as well as folders on your network PCs. And this is possible by making use of the sharing wizard or else advanced sharing settings. Both actions are extremely identical among Windows 7 as well as Windows Vista.

Step 4: Access Shared Files and Folders

Accessing shared files and folders out to be awfully easy: open a Windows Explorer window as well as set off to Network. And where you will make out every PCs which are turned on at that time and part of the similar workgroup.



In case whenever you double click on a few of the computer, you will be capable to access its shared files as well as the folders.

In case if password protected sharing is being enabled on the PC which you are trying to access, you will be demanded to put in a valid user name as well as password. One thing to watch out for is to first type the name of the PC you are accessing in the username field. This will customize the domain to that PC instead of your local one. After that type '\' and a user name defined on the PC you are accessing. Afterwards, type the password, and click on OK and there you are allowed to access each and every shared file by that PC.

Conclusion

Making computers with Windows 7 as well as Windows Vista are extremely companionable in the similar network is not very tricky. They ought to be in the similar workgroup as well as include well-suited network sharing settings.