Nowadays, two or three computers in the average family are quite common, and some of the brand notebooks may have been upgraded and installed with the latest Windows 7 operating system (hereafter referred to as Win7). So in this case, how to set up a pure Win7 system environment or a home LAN in a mixed environment of Win7 and XP systems, how to set up file sharing? If you have the same questions, please check the methods described in this article in detail, I believe you can solve them.
infrastructure set up home LAN
while setting up a home network, the latest Win7 system even more simple and convenient, thanks to the system of "network discovery" feature. At the same time, compared with the XP system, in the Win7 system, you can also choose different environments such as home network, work network, and public network, and the security is higher. In addition, from an application perspective, in addition to traditional file sharing, Win7 also allows sharing support for media files in the form of playlists.
Step1.
unified workgroup name to successfully set up home LAN, all LAN computer must have the same workgroup name and a different computer. In Win7, the specific operation is relatively simple, right click on the "computer", select "Properties" in the pop-up shortcut menu, and then modify the working unit of the computer under the "Computer Name, Domain, Workgroup Settings" in the pop-up window. The computer name is OK.
Step2.
setting up a home network set up a home network in Win7, you can do in the Control Panel, open the "Network and Sharing Center", click "Choose homegroup and sharing options → Change advanced sharing "Settings" can be set for both "home and work" and "public" LAN environments. To expand the “Home or Work” network, the items that must be selected are as follows.
Next, in the "Network and Sharing Center", click "View active connection" to choose a different network location in the next screen.
Dong Master Tip: In Win7, you can select "Home Network", "Work Network" and "public network" three models, respectively. But the settings here are only two options: "home and work" and "public". It turned out that it has unified the "home network" and "work network." However, if you choose "Home Network", you need to set the password. Therefore, in order to share the convenience of access, we recommend that you choose "work network" or as the case may be.
home network settings in XP which can be used to help complete the network setup wizard. Double-click "My Network Places" on the desktop, and then select "Set Home or Small Office Network" from the pop-up window to start the Network Installation Wizard, and then just follow the wizard prompts.
open guest account XP and Win7 achieve visits
to make XP and Win7 smoothly visits, open the guest account Guest. In XP, select "Administrative Tools → Computer Management" in the control panel, and then select "Local Users and Groups → Users" in the pop-up window. Then, double-click "Guest" on the right side, in the pop-up dialog box, clear the check box for "Account is disabled", and then confirm that the "Password never expires" item is checked (the setting method in Win7 is similar).
Dong Master Tip: Make sure that the password never expires, in the future again to access shared folders, you can no longer change the password more convenient. Of course, you can set it up according to the specific situation. In addition, XP and Win7's mutual visits and sharing (such as printer sharing) may generate a lot of strange problems, we will not list them here. The solution is to open the guest account and ensure that the two computers are in the same working group and do the basic sharing settings. Please set the XP and Win7 firewalls in detail, which can be solved.