Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Oct 2 12:35:40 CDT 2011
Hi Tina: My simple solution would be to set up a server. My network is a miss-match of XP/Win7/Linux. They all connect happily through my new server2008 or 2003 without issues. You can use your main router as a domain server and that sometimes helps things. (If you are feel courageous see the article, I just posted on an Open Source replacement for router software/firmware.) The network protocol on Win7 is quite different from XP especially if you are mixing 32 and 64-bit machines. I have an article on that somewhere but cannot find it right now but check out the following basic link: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15247/complete-guide-to-networking-windows-7- with-xp-and-vista/ Sometimes machines will not talk to each other via their names and you end up having to use their IP address; i.e. 192.168.101.150 instead of Tina01. There is a many other things to check out though but the above list would be a good start. Keep me posted on your progress. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris Fields Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 9:56 AM To: DatabaseAdvisors-Tech Subject: [dba-Tech] Wireless network Win-7 to Win-XP Hi All, Some weeks ago we noted that an update to Win-7 seemed to break network connections to Win-XP machines. I had that experience. Then, after a few days, my network connections were all back - after presumably the next Win-7 (or Win-XP) update. Some time later, once again my network disappeared from the Win-7 machine - it cannot see any of the Win-XP machines. The Win-XP machines see each other but not the Win-7 machine. I've put off thinking about this, but now I need to. I really liked being able to reach across the network for things stored elsewhere - for example my genealogy database is on a shared external drive plugged into my Win-XP Pro machine. I don't so much like having to switch machines to go check something in that database. Nor am I wild about having to pop things onto a jump drive and transfer them via sneaker-net to my Win-7 machine in order to print them. (That's a different issue - the printer decided to stop seeing the wireless network, so it's plugged into a USB port on my Win-7 machine - I'll get to that after I work out this on-again off-again business with Win-7 and Win-XP.) Does anybody here know how I can re-establish my wireless network between Win-7 and Win-XP? Oh, and KEEP it re-established? Thanks. T -- Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com 231-322-2787 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com