John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Mon Feb 27 13:47:29 CST 2012
I'm not sure about any potential problems. More a matter of preference and environment. Windows 7 Home Group is kind of the "magic" kind of technology for people that don't want to know about all the details. Somewhat akin to how the Apple products work together. I use the password login scheme because I prefer more control over my system and I have a mix of machines. If Windows 8 is compatible with the Win7 Home Group scheme I may switch to it at that point. In addition to Win8 of the PCs, I will be strongly considering a Win8 phone. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 1:18 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 Permissions Or I could add a login/password to machine 1? Might be easier - less potential problems? R -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 10:46 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 Permissions I think that if you reset the networking to home then your other network settings will be invalidated. The user name and password should be irrelevant though. What you could do is use the System Recovery to create a recovery point, change the settings to Home, try them out, and if you're not happy with it use system restore to go back to your former method. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 12:33 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 Permissions John: Will that home network/passcode feature still work if one of the machines already user name and password for login? Rocky -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 9:40 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 Permissions Yes, I think you are correct Lembit. With traditional windows peer to peer networking if you set a username and password to be identical on all machines then share the folders you want available the sharing becomes transparent. If you have a mix of Win7/Vista/XP/2k/98/95 then this is the way to go. If you have all Windows 7 machines the easiest way to go for a home setup is to use the home networking option. Choose "Home" as the type of network (in your network connections) and then set up a Home Group. You get a passcode for the home group. Put that into any piece of (Windows 7 compatible) equipment that you want to share the material with and everything you checked is shared through the network as if it's on your computer. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lembit Soobik Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 11:10 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 Permissions Rocky, Do you have a password set on both machines? IIRC, you need this in W7. It won't allow connection to a machine without password. Lembit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> To: "'Off Topic'" <dba-ot at databaseadvisors.com>; "List" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 5:40 PM Subject: [dba-Tech] W7 Permissions > Dear List(s): > > I have two machines in my LAN running W7. I can push files from > machine 1 to machine 2 and pull files as well. But I cannot see > machine 1 from machine > 2 > although all drives on both systems' drives are shared. > > I can see and access the folder Users on Machine 1 from Machine 2 - > that's the only one I can see - but that's the public folder and maybe > W7 has set that one up that way. > > Machine 2 is my backup box so mostly I'm dragging and dropping files > from machine 1 to machine 2. But I have to resolve this > incompatibility between > A2003 and A20210 and machine 2 is my 2010 test bed. So now back and > forth is becoming more useful. > > When I display machine 1 on machine 2 I see the Drive C (shared) but > when I try to open it up I get the usual message 'You do not have > permission to access..." and tells me to contact my system > administrator. 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