Connecting XP and 7

How do you connect windows 7 to an xp network to share files. I got Windows 7 64-bit ultimate and windows xp sp3. All I want to do is use files from the xp network on the 7 one.
thanks

 

First click the network symbol in the tray

Then click "network and sharing center"

The click "on" "network discovery"

 

Some interesting info here, too: http://forums.techarena.in/networking-security/1105626.htm

Dick

 

Its still not working. Both computers are on the same workgroup and connected to the same router. would running a virtual windows 7 on the xp machine work? I know connecting 2 windows 7s is easy cause of the workgroups.

 

I have no problem sharing between Win2K, WinXP and Win7. Vista is an entirely different matter. In my six-system home network nobody talks to/from my wife's Vista system. I would have come here hat-in-hand a long time ago asking for help, but I really wanted to save myself a public forehead-slapping moment.

Someday she may come to me, all sweetness and light, whispering "YO! ADMIN!" and my cover of ignorance will be blown and I'll be back.

Dick