I have been busy trying to copy files from a old XP machine to W8. The XP machine is connected by cable, the W8 machine by wifi. I am using a BT Homehub 2. Would it work, would it heck! <\/p>\n
I do some googling and the first thing I find is that the Vista\/Wn<\/em> Homegroup improvement makes connecting with XP hard, hopefully not as hard as it was with Vista.<\/p>\n Rule No 1. Both machines must be in the same Workgroup.<\/p>\n I used the Network Setup Wizard<\/a> on the XP machine to set up a home network and to ensure that there is a network with the workgroup name. I enabled XP simple file transfer<\/a>.<\/p>\n I then spent a lot of time mucking around with the Network and Homegroup views of the W8 machine and while I could see the W7 machine, and all the printer\/scanner’s personalities and the hub, I couldn’t see the XP machine. The XP machine can ‘ping’ the W8 machine using the ip address.<\/p>\n Did I say the W8 machine was new? I disabled the firewall and rebooted the machine as requested. The reboot turned on the firewall and installed 51 updates. (I am using McAfee.) I then created a folder, C:\\share, which I shared out. There is some suggestion that W8 systems default to network discovery is off. I checked this, and it seemed OK, although only after this did the network browser ‘see’ itself.<\/p>\n On the XP system, I disabled the firewall, and then I opened “My Networks” and added a new place, using the tcp\/ip address and the new folder. I was prompted for a login and so used the W8 login credentials. (These is a local login.) This worked and opened up a file explorer view on the w8 machine’s \/share.<\/p>\n So I still don’t know why the W8 machine can’t ‘see’ the XP system in the network browser. I am advised it might be some hub configuration or hub firewall rules<\/p>\n Hope this helps someone, sorry that it’s not more accurate. Perhaps I’ll improve it next time I visit the W8 machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been busy trying to copy files from a old XP machine to W8. The XP machine is connected by cable, the W8 machine by wifi. I am using a BT Homehub 2. Would it work, would it heck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[1184,484,18,172,914,911,913,575,258],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-networking","category-technology","tag-deprecated","tag-file-sharing","tag-homegroup","tag-homehub","tag-networking","tag-technology","tag-w7","tag-w8","tag-xp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/deprecated-dfl1955-cc0-w1080.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}