Windows 7 plus WinXP LAN construction and file sharing

Now, there are two or three computers in the family has been quite common, and some brand notebooks may have been upgraded to install the latest Windows 7 operating system (hereinafter referred to as Win 7 ). Under such circumstances, 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 in 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 work of the computer under "Computer Name, Domain, Workgroup Settings" in the pop-up window. The unit and computer name can be used.

Step 2: Set up the home network

Set up the home network in Win 7, you can open the "Network and Sharing Center" in the Control Panel, click "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 and Work” network, the items that must be selected are as follows.

Next, click "View Active Connections" in "Network and Sharing Center" to select different network locations in the next interface.

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.

The home network settings in XP can be helped by the network installation 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.

Opening the Guest Account Realizing XP and Win 7 Intercommunication

To make XP and Win 7 visit each other smoothly, 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) .

Tip: Confirm that the password never expires. You can access the shared folder again in the future without having 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 a lot of 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.

Please click "Next Page", we introduce the settings for file sharing.

File Sharing Integrating Multi-Party File Resources

After the LAN is created, you can create different folder shares to share file resources between different computers. When you install Win 7, the system automatically creates a user named "Public" for us, and also creates a folder called "Public" on the hard disk. In the previous setup, we have chosen to allow public folder sharing, so other computers on the LAN can access this folder. Ordinary file sharing, as long as the files that need to be shared are copied to the "public" folder. For more flexible applications, you need to set it up manually.

Note: The following is an introduction to the Win 7 environment. The settings in the XP system can be used as a reference.

Step 1: Basic Sharing Settings

Let's take the sharing of the Share folder in the root directory of a computer's E disk as an example. First right click on the Share folder in the root directory of the E drive and select "Properties → Share". Then click "Share" in the dialog box that opens, select the user name Everyone in the pop-up dialog box, and then click "Add" to make it appear in the list box below. Next, set permissions for it under "Permission Level", such as "Read/Write" or "Read" (as shown in Figure 1).

Tip: To cancel sharing, you can use the same method to clear the "Share this folder" check box in "Properties → Sharing → Advanced Sharing".

Step 2: Different rights allocation

Basic sharing settings may not meet the needs of more users. How do you set different sharing permissions for different users? A folder named "Engineering Picture" is shared with different names ("Engineering Picture DX" and "Engineering Picture ZD") as an example: if the login account is DX, then it has read and write permissions; if the account is logged in For ZD, then only read permissions.

First, right click on the "Computer" on the desktop, select "Manage", in the pop-up management window, expand "Local User and Group → User" on the left, click "Operation → New User" ", enter "DX" after "username" and set the password. Then uncheck the "User must change password when logging in next time" and select "Password never expires". Finally, click "Create" to generate a system account at the "Standard User" level. For the same reason, create a similar system account named "ZD".

Then the permissions are set for each of the two accounts. In the "Share" option of the folder, select "Advanced Share → Share this folder", enter a name under "Share Name" (such as "Project Picture DX"), and then click "Permissions → Add → Advanced → Find Now" ", find the account "DX" you just created and click to add it. Finally, check "Full Control" under "Allow" (as shown in Figure 2.

In addition, you can also observe the user named Everyone, and have full control rights, please delete it) . After the setup is complete, you will have read and write access when you log in as a DX account and access the folder. Similarly, if the ZD user's permission is set to “Read”, the ZD account will only have read access when logging in to access the folder.

Next, you need to complete the assignment of user rights. Click Start→Control Panel→Administrative Tools→Local Security Policy. In the dialog that opens, expand Security Settings→Local Policies→User Rights Assignment on the left. On the right, find “Access this computer from the network”. And double click. Next, click Add User and Group to add DX and ZD. Then expand Security Settings→Local Policies→Security Options, find “Network Access: Sharing and Security Mode for Local Accounts” on the right, double-click and select “Classic – Local users authenticate with their own identity”. At this point, the sharing settings are all completed.

Please click "Next Page", we introduce the settings of media sharing.

Media Sharing Home Entertainment Secure Sharing

Similar to regular file sharing, media files can also be shared, but there is a more secure form of media sharing in Win 7 - The form of the playlist is shared. In this way, the visiting computer does not access the media file itself, so there is no need to worry about the file being destroyed or maliciously copied, and the shared content can also be controlled by grading, which is very suitable for home users.

Step 1: Media Sharing Settings

Double-click "Network" on the desktop, click "Network and Sharing Center" from the window that opens, click "Select Family Group and Sharing Options" →Change advanced sharing settings, then expand Home and Work, find the Media Stream under it and click. Select "All Networks" after "Display Device Location" and click "Allow All".

After the above settings are completed, enter the “Media Stream Options” window under “Network and Sharing Center” again, you can observe the computer name that has been added, and click “Custom” after clicking the computer in the network. Link (as shown in Figure 3). From the content displayed in the pop-up dialog box, it will not impose any restrictions on media sharing. Let's start by modifying it.

First uncheck the "Use default settings" checkbox and select "Only", then select the level.

Tip: To ensure that media files without levels are also controlled, please uncheck "Include unrated files".

Step 2: Shared Media Playback

When the other computer is running Windows Media Player, you can observe the playlist of this machine in the left pane. Under the "Other Media Library", after observing the computer icon sharing the media file, you can find the playlist shared by the computer and play the shared media file (as shown in Figure 4).

Tip: Media playlist sharing cannot be implemented in XP system. This function is limited to media sharing access between Win 7 systems.

Please click "Next Page", we introduce the setting of LAN sharing security.

Security Settings LAN Sharing Tips

As we all know, LAN sharing is becoming the main way for virus transmission while facilitating our daily life applications. Therefore, when setting up the LAN share, be sure to set the detailed access rights. Only when the sharing security is ensured, can the convenience of LAN sharing be better utilized. In addition, XP and Win 7 LAN interconnection, and not as imaginary as the trouble, as long as the basic preparations in accordance with the methods described in the article, you can smoothly achieve XP and Win 7 smooth mutual visits. The media sharing function provided by Win 7 brings more practical choices and also provides convenience for our entertainment.

Win 7 LAN sharing settings are relatively simple, but the exchange of Win 7 and XP may cause a lot of problems, if you have any problems with LAN sharing in the actual operation can not be resolved, welcome to Windows7 Group music and everyone discuss ideas.