When faced w/a situation like this, I created a network using an xp machine & just had the windows 7 box join it. I don't really think it makes any difference, though, just use the home group option in 7--u don't need a domain. I had a preexisting network for my xp machines, &, when I got the 7 box, it was easy to just have it join the network. On 12/31/12, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I've got a setup that I'm wanting to share some resources pc to pc. The router is a belkin f5d7231-4, it's wireless as well as having some ethernet ports. In to this a win7 home premium box is plugged. This box has attached to it two printers, one via parralel port it is a brother laser printer, the other via usb, but has wireless capability, an epson stylus nx400 it's a printer, scanner, copier and can as I said do wireless.
The two other machines are windows xp laptops one here the other roaming but comes back. What I'd like to do is share some files from the 7 box and allow the xp machines to get to them, and to share files from the xp box and allow the 7 box to get at them. For the printers I'd like to share the laser attached to the 7 box and also to get the epson off of a USB connection to the 7 box and have it go full wireless so that all three machines can get to it.
I don't have a domain, and I've understood that 7 does things differently in terms of sharing, I would use a workgroup setup if these were all xp machines.
Suggestions welcome.
Thanks. Dave.
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