I purchased two new HP business desktops running Windows 7. Downloaded Norton for the 60 day trial going into the 2nd week of subscription.
Have a 4 year old Dell running Vista Business with NIS 2013 version 21.1.0.18. I've been trying to network all three computers.
The new HP's see each other and pings are responsive.
The Dell pings each HP with a reply.
The HP's ping attempts to the Dell "Request times out".
This next part is funny. I have turned off "Smart Firewall" on the Dell for 15 minutes. Both HP's receive a ping reply. Great I am on the right track.
I am a moderate user knoweledgeable about how to get answers and work my computers. Went through 3 days of searching page after page of redundant information regarding sharing, discovery, homegroup, windows firewall, etc etc.
The turning off of "Smart Firewall" is a small victory. But this is where I am stuck. The Dell was acting as a server before the new HP's. 2 Nodes were running our business programs. Since we updated with HP's, the HP's will be acting as the server computer for the Dell node. But I am ready to trash the Dell and bring my HP desktop with Windows 7 to the work place.
NIS has a fewture called a Network Security Map. On all three computers check to see that all devices are listed and that they all have the necessary level of trust to be able to communicate.
Yes I have configured the Network Security Map, on my previous Nodes along w the Dell, considering the previous scrapped nodes were running XP Pro. On this new NSM the trust level is set to secure and I went so far as to turn on remote monitoring with password... Computer Discovery is on. I accomplished all this through trial & error.
even w/o remote monitoring the network problem persisted
Remote monitoring is for something else, thats to be able to check the statis of the Norton products on the other systems.
In the network security map you want to make sure the other computers are set to shared or full trust.
On the top section, click once to highlight each other computer on the network, then on the bottom section under "trust level" click the "edit" button and change the trust to shared or full trust.
The systems that don't "ping back" sounds like they are not set to trust the "pinging" computers.
I changed the NSM "Trust Level" to Full Trust... Only on the Dell Vista ... It worked! The HP's are now able to Map the Vista drive I was trying to share all along.
Just a note, Windows 7 prompts for a user name and password. Exactly what I wanted. Just that, "admin" is the only user name the network is willing to accept. The regular HP usernames to sign in on the desktop do not work.... but that's for another blog ... maybe on MSFT.
I will continue to work with the network, right now I am not ready to finalize it as Resolved.
On the computer that hosts the share, right click on the shared folder and select "properties"
Click the tab "Sharing" or "Web Sharing".
Then click "Permissions".
Ensure that the users or user groups exist and that the permissions are set correctly, you need at least "read", and change if you want to give write access and click full control if you want to give them delete permissions as well.
Sometimes you will loose user permissions or groups ater making changes or if the Admin and not a user created the folder.
Personally, I just add the "Everyone" group and give it full control if it's a home network.