Windows7 system users share settings in the LAN

Now, two or three computers in the general family are quite common, and some of the brand notebooks may have been upgraded to install the latest Windows 7 operating system (hereafter referred to as Win 7). So in this case, how to set up a pure Win 7 system environment or a home LAN in a mixed environment of Win 7 and XP systems, how to set up file sharing? If you have the same questions, please check the methods described in this article in detail, I believe you can solve them.

Infrastructure Building a Home LAN

When building a home network, the latest Win 7 system is much simpler and more convenient, thanks to the system's "network discovery" feature. At the same time, compared with the XP system, in the Win 7 system, you can also choose different environments such as home network, work network, and public network, and the security is also higher. In addition, from an application perspective, in addition to traditional file sharing, Win 7 also allows sharing support for media files in the form of playlists.

Step 1. Unified Workgroup Name

To successfully set up a home LAN, all computers on the LAN must have the same workgroup and different computer names. In Win 7, the specific operation is relatively simple, right click on the "computer", select "Properties" in the shortcut menu that pops up, and then modify the working unit of the computer under "Computer Name, Domain, Workgroup Settings" in the pop-up window. And the computer name can be.

Step 2. Set up a home network

To set up a home network in Win 7, you can open the Network and Sharing Center in the Control Panel and click on "Select Family Group and Sharing Options → Change" Advanced Sharing Settings allows you to set up both Home and Work and Public LAN environments. To expand the “Home or Work” network, the items that must be selected are as follows.

Next, in the "Network and Sharing Center", click "View active connection" to choose a different network location in the next screen.

Dong Shifu Tip: In Win 7, you can choose three modes: “Home Network”, “Work Network” and “Public Network”. But the settings here are only two options: "home and work" and "public". It turned out that it has unified the "home network" and "work network." However, if you choose "Home Network", you need to set the password. Therefore, in order to share the convenience of access, we recommend that you choose "work network" or as the case may be.

Home network settings in XP can be done through the Network Setup Wizard. Double-click "My Network Places" on the desktop, and then select "Set Home or Small Office Network" from the pop-up window to start the Network Installation Wizard, and then just follow the wizard prompts.

Open Guest Account Enable XP and Win 7 Intercommunication

To enable XP and Win 7 to successfully exchange visits, please open the Guest Guest account. In XP, select "Administrative Tools → Computer Management" in the control panel, and then select "Local Users and Groups → Users" in the pop-up window. Then, double-click "Guest" on the right side, in the pop-up dialog box, clear the check box for "Account is disabled", and then confirm that the "Password never expires" item is checked (the setting method in Win 7 is similar) .

Dong Shifu Tip: Confirm that the password never expires. In the future, if you access the shared folder again, you don't need to change the password, which is more convenient. Of course, you can set it up according to the specific situation. In addition, XP and Win 7's mutual visits and sharing (such as printer sharing) may have many strange problems, we will not list them here. The solution is to open the guest account and ensure that the two computers are in the same working group and do the basic sharing settings. Please set the XP and Win 7 firewalls in detail, which can be solved.