Comments on: Windows 7 Network File Sharing Fix

By: P. Tanner Williamson

P. Tanner Williamson — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:45:16 +0000

@CA1242,

There is a registry tweak you’ll need to enter manually in order to do it. The instructions provided require Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate. I will try and get these registry instructions updated here on the post.

By: CA1242

CA1242 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:38:04 +0000

Thank you very much. I have been trying to figure this out on two new laptops for a few weeks now. I did it successfully on one with Microsoft Windows 7 Professional and it worked great.

Unfortunately, I can not access these settings from my wife’s Microsoft Windows 7 Starter; looks like these settings are not user-changeable on the cheaper version. Do you know of a workaround?

By: John P.

John P. — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:08:58 +0000

Most others have been successful , but I have not yet been successful. I have recently installed Microsoft Windows 7 Professional x64 (64 bit) on a desktop on my Ethernet LAN and gone through all the well documented steps above. However I still get a RPC error message trying to access the print server through a router. I can see the print server but yet get the error message trying to get any further, or when trying to set up the USB HP1200 printer hanging off it. All other computers (Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000 and Ubuntu) have no problems printing. I can access the Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows XP computers from Microsoft Windows Seven (Win 7) and vice versa (and could before the Tanner Williamson modifications) but the critical print server eludes me.

By: Vaidas

Vaidas — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:21:39 +0000

Hi. Thanks for useful information, but in my case it didn’t work untill I turned on the guest account in Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional. After doing that, I could connect from Microsoft Windows 7 Professional to shared folders on Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional. I hope that will be useful information for others. Good luck.

By: Mark Lee-Barber

Mark Lee-Barber — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:42:25 +0000

Hi. Good news. Your solution between Microsoft Windows 7 and a couple of Microsoft Windows 2000 PCs was working perfectly for some time. Bad news is that although Microsoft Windows 2000 can access Microsoft Windows 7, I can no longer see the Microsoft Windows 2000 PCs across the network. I have double checked the security settings. I am not aware of having made any changes to either computer.

By: Dr. Dave

Dr. Dave — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:23:54 +0000

You rock! This fixed my problem accessing shares on Microsoft Windows 2000.

Thanks.

By: Senthil Kumar

Senthil Kumar — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:24:41 +0000

Thanks a lot for your perfect solution.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:54:56 +0000

Oh thank your mother for birthing you! I am as thankful to you as I am infuriated at Microsoft for overlooking something this important!

By: P. Tanner Williamson

P. Tanner Williamson — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:20:56 +0000

@Bob

Each edition of Windows 7 is a little bit different. Windows 7 Home Premium doesn’t have the advanced management options that professional does, so you may not be able to use this work around with your current version of Windows 7 Home Premium.

By: P. Tanner Williamson

P. Tanner Williamson — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:12:34 +0000

@Jarvis
Sorry, out of luck!