Solution to XP failure to Access Windows 7 shared files

Many LAN users find that, after Windows 7 is installed, folders in the network may be shared with each other, and Windows 7 shared folders may often be inaccessible to computers installed with Windows XP, although some shared directories under Windows 7 can be seen, once you enter the directory, you will be prompted that you do not have access permissions. After several days of painstaking research, I finally found that it takes only a few steps to make XP and Windows 7 communicate with each other, and shared folders will no longer be accessible.

First, go to "network and sharing center" to set up the firewall for Windows. Although this may pose an insecure risk, it is only necessary to achieve mutual access between different systems.

 

 

After the Windows Firewall is disabled, go to "Advanced Settings" on the left side of the firewall settings page and modify "inbound rules" and "outbound Rules. In these two rules, find the "file and printer sharing" option, and set all the options to "Allow all connection ".

 

 

After completing the preceding settings, go to the "User Account", enable the "Guest" account, and enable the corresponding sharing Function in the system service. Now, the sharing settings are almost complete. Finally, set the corresponding shared folder. If you are familiar with XP sharing settings, you can easily perform the following operations. Windows 7 shares the same idea as XP, the difference is that the set path is different.

In the first step, select the folder to be shared, right-click and select "properties", select "Advanced sharing" on the "share" tab, and add the hooks before "share this folder, click "add"> "advanced"> "Search now" in "Permissions ". Then select "Everyone" and "Guest" in the search results and confirm.

 

The above steps can basically solve the problem that XP 99% cannot access the shared folder of Windows 7. Of course, it is not ruled out that access exceptions still occur through the above method. We recommend that you temporarily disable the installed anti-virus software or third-party network firewalls, such as Skynet, to prevent access from being blocked by other network firewalls.