Windows 7 shared settings method in LAN

        Nowadays, two or three computers in the average family are quite common, and some of the brand notebooks may have been upgraded to install 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 set up home LAN

while setting up a home network, the latest Win 7 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 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 the home network

Set up the 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: Win 7, you can select "Home Network", respectively, "Work Network" and "public network" three models. 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.

The home network settings in XP can be helped by the network installation 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 Win 7 visits realize

to make XP and 7 can be smoothly visits Win, please 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 Win 7 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 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 integration of multiple resources


LAN file creation is complete, you can create a different folder sharing, file sharing of resources to achieve 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 example of 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 sharing of the Share folder in the root directory of a computer's E disk as an example. 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", such as "Read/Write" or "Read" (as shown in Figure 1).

Dong Master Tip: cancel share, the same approach can be taken to remove the check on "Share this folder" in the "Properties → Advanced → Shared sharing" in.

Step 2. Different rights allocation

Basic sharing settings may not meet the needs of more users, so different settings for different users How do you share sharing permissions? 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 there were two accounts set permissions. 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. Finally, check "Full Control" under "Allow" (as shown in Figure 2. In addition, you can observe the user named Everyone, and have full control rights, please delete 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.

Next, you need to complete the assignment of user rights. Click Start→Control Panel→Administrative Tools→Local Security Policy. In the dialog that opens, expand Security Settings→Local Policies→User Rights Assignment on the left. On the right, find “Access this computer from the network”. And double click. Next, click Add User and Group to add DX and ZD. Then expand Security Settings→Local Policies→Security Options, find the Network Access: Sharing and Security Mode for Local Accounts on the right, double-click and select Classic – Local users authenticate with their own. At this point, the sharing settings are all completed.

Media Sharing Home Entertainment Security ordinary share


similar file sharing, media files can also be shared, but in Win 7 there are a safer form of media sharing - Share media files as playlists. 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 name of the computer you have joined, 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 Master Tip: To ensure that there is no division level is also controlled media files, please uncheck "includes unrated document".

Step 2. Shared media playback

After the setting is completed, other computers running Windows Media Player, in the left pane You can observe the playlist of this machine, and you can also observe the computer icon shared by the media file under “Other Media Library”, you can find the playlist shared by the computer, and play the shared media file (as shown in Figure 4). Show).

Master Dong Tip: Media playlist sharing cannot be achieved in XP system. This function is limited to media sharing access between Win 7 systems.

security settings LAN sharing tips

is well known in the local area network to facilitate our daily lives to share applications at the same time, it has also become the main way of transmission of the virus. Therefore, when setting up the LAN share, be sure to set the detailed access rights. Only when the sharing security is ensured, can the convenience of LAN sharing be better utilized. In addition, the Internet connection between XP and Win 7 is not as troublesome as imagined. As long as the basic work preparation is done according to the method described in the article, the smooth mutual access between XP and Win 7 can be realized smoothly. The media sharing function provided by Win 7 brings more practical choices and also provides convenience for our entertainment.