By pete -

Today we stumbled across one of those issues that comes up just once every few years – sharing files on your Windows network via different Windows OS installations. One would think this should be easy without issue – however Microsoft notoriously makes it difficult to make your computers talk to eachother if they have different version of Windows running.

Lifehacker – Setup File and Printer Sharing From XP to Windows 7 – Windows XP.

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Even if you’ve upgraded to Windows 7 in some form or another, chances are you’ve still got a computer somewhere on your network running trusty old XP. If so, it’s time to set up Windows 7 to play nice with XP on your network.

Over at the How-To Geek web site (my home away from Lifehacker), Mysticgeek writes up a detailed guide to sharing printers and folders between Windows 7 and XP—a process that never seems to be simple enough.