You also have to select whether you want to give Read or Read/Write access "mac" <mac@nospan.com> wrote in message news:... > One suggestion that worked for me: > Open Library (windows Explorer) -click on the folder you want to share > (I.e. documents), right click and select "Share with", Select "specific > People", Type Everyone on the add field, click ADD, the click on share . > That resolved my problems. I did in all my Windows 7 machines. > > mac > > "Shoe" <j_shoe@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:et7ml5hchp4cq7cneqcc705nl7am995q4b@4ax.com... >> I have two desktops and a laptop on my home network. One of the >> desktops has Windows 7 Home Premium, the other two have XP, SP3. I >> can access files on the other machines from the Windows 7 machine, but >> have not been able to access files on the Windows 7 machine from the >> XP computers. It looks like Homegroup is the only way to file share >> in Windows 7 and, of course, I can't use Homegroup on the XP >> computers. Is there a way to set up file sharing other than >> installing Windows 7 on all the machines? >