[dba-Tech] Wireless network Win-7 to Win-XP

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the reply.  I stayed with the 32-bit system when I got my 
Win-7 precisely because I have four Win-XP systems (all but one of them 
are Pro).

Okay, this is where I start learning new things.  I've been thinking 
about servers, but I have no experience with servers, so thinking is all 
I've done.  I still have some functional D-Link DL-541 routers around 
that aren't doing anything.  I will go check out the article you posted 
- if I can find it again.  So, back into the "learning about networks" 
mode I go.  Thank you for the howtogeek link.

Knowledge is so like Swiss cheese - large areas of solid stuff with 
great gaping air pockets every so often - makes me feel stupid, sometimes.

T

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
231-322-2787


On 10/2/2011 1:35 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> 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-----
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> [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
>