Microsoft Windows 7 makes LAN sharing unimpeded

Now, two or three computers in the average family are quite common, and some of the branded notebooks may have been upgraded to the latest Windows 7 operating system (hereafter referred to as Win 7). So in this case, how to set up a pure Win 7 system environment or a home LAN in a mixed environment of Win 7 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 Building a Home LAN

When building a home network, the latest Win 7 system is much simpler and more convenient, thanks to the system's "network discovery" feature. At the same time, compared with the XP system, in the Win 7 system, you can also choose different environments such as home network, work network, and public network, and the security is also higher. In addition, from an application perspective, in addition to traditional file sharing, Win 7 also allows sharing support for media files in the form of playlists.

Step 1. Unified Workgroup Name

To successfully set up a home LAN, all computers on the LAN must have the same workgroup and different computer names. In Win 7, the specific operation is relatively simple, right click on the "computer", select "Properties" in the shortcut menu that pops up, and then modify the working unit of the computer under "Computer Name, Domain, Workgroup Settings" in the pop-up window. And the computer name can be.

Step 2. Set up a home network

Set up a home network in Win 7, you can open the "Network and Sharing Center" in the control panel, click "Select Family Group and Sharing Options → Change Advanced Sharing Settings allows you to set up 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, click "View Active Connections" in "Network and Sharing Center" to select different network locations in the next interface.

Dong Master Tip: In Win 7, you can choose three modes: “Home Network”, “Work Network” and “Public Network”. 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.

Starting Guest Accounts Realizing XP and Win 7 Interviews

To make XP and Win 7 visit each other smoothly, please open the Guest Guest account. 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 Win 7 is similar) .

Dong Dongfu Tip: Confirm that the password never expires. In the future, if you access the shared folder again, you don't need to change the password, which is more convenient. Of course, you can set it up according to the specific situation. In addition, XP and Win 7's mutual visits and sharing (such as printer sharing) may have many 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 Win 7 firewalls in detail, which can be solved.

File Sharing Integrating Multi-Part File Resources

After the LAN is created, you can create different folder shares to share file resources between different computers. When you install Win 7, the system automatically creates a user named "Public" for us, and also creates a folder called "Public" on the hard disk. In the previous setup, we have chosen to allow public folder sharing, so other computers on the LAN can access this folder. Ordinary file sharing, as long as the files that need to be shared are copied to the "public" folder. For more flexible applications, you need to set it up manually.

Note: The following is an introduction to the Win 7 environment. The settings in the XP system can be used as a reference.

Step 1. Basic Sharing Settings

Let's take the example of sharing the Share folder in the root directory of a computer's E disk. First right click on the Share folder in the root directory of the E drive and select "Properties → Share". Then click "Share" in the dialog box that opens, select the user name Everyone in the pop-up dialog box, and then click "Add" to make it appear in the list box below. Next, set permissions for it under "Permission Level", for example: "Read/Write" or "Read"

Step 2. Different Rights Assignment

Basic sharing settings may not be satisfied More user needs, how do you set up different sharing permissions for different users? Below we will take a folder named "Engineering Picture" with a different name ("Engineering Picture DX" and "Engineering Picture ZD") as an example to explain: If the login account is DX, then have read and write permissions If the login account is ZD, then only the read permission.

First, right click on the "Computer" on the desktop, select "Manage", in the pop-up management window, expand "Local User and Group → User" on the left, click "Operation → New User" ", enter "DX" after "username" and set the password. Then uncheck the "User must change password when logging in next time" and select "Password never expires". Finally, click "Create" to generate a system account at the "Standard User" level. For the same reason, create a similar system account called "ZD".

Then the permissions are set for each of the two accounts. In the "Share" option of the folder, select "Advanced Share → Share this folder", enter a name under "Share Name" (such as "Project Picture DX"), and then click "Permissions → Add → Advanced → Find Now" ", find the account "DX" you just created and click to add it. The Computer Network Academy (http://www.pcedu123.com) reminds everyone to finally check "Full Control" under "Allow" (as shown in Figure 2. In addition, it is also possible to observe the user named Everyone, and has Full control permissions, please remove it). After the setup is complete, you will have read and write access when you log in as a DX account and access the folder. Similarly, if the ZD user's permission is set to “Read”, the ZD account will only have read access when logging in to access the folder.

Media Sharing Home Entertainment Secure Sharing

Similar to regular file sharing, media files can also be shared, but there is a more secure form of media sharing in Win 7 - The form of the playlist is shared. In this way, the visiting computer does not access the media file itself, so there is no need to worry about the file being destroyed or maliciously copied, and the shared content can also be controlled by grading, which is very suitable for home users.

Step 1. Media Sharing Settings

Double-click "Network" on the desktop, click "Network and Sharing Center" from the window that opens, click "Select Family Group and Sharing Options" →Change advanced sharing settings, then expand Home and Work, find the Media Stream under it and click. Select "All Networks" after "Display Device Location" and click "Allow All".

After the above settings are completed, enter the “Media Stream Options” window under “Network and Sharing Center” again, you can observe the computer name that has been added, and click “Custom” after clicking the computer in the network. Link (as shown in Figure 3). From the content displayed in the pop-up dialog box, it will not impose any restrictions on media sharing. Let's start by modifying it.

First cancel the "Use default settings" tick selection "Only", and then select the level.

Dong Dongfu Tip: In order to ensure that media files without division level are also controlled, please uncheck the "Include ungraded files".

Step 2. Shared Media Playback

When the other computer is running Windows Media Player, you can observe the playlist of this machine in the left pane. Under the "Other Media Library", you can see the computer icon sharing the media file, you can find the playlist shared by the computer, and play the shared media file.

Dong Dongfu Tip: The sharing of media playlists cannot be realized in XP system. This function is limited to media sharing access between Win 7 systems.