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@Pete-S said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
Check that you have Client for Microsoft Network enabled under networking properties for the LAN adapter.
Thanks @Pete-S I already checked and it is installed and enabled. Still the problem persists.
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@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
Obviously Asking for help was the stupidest thing I could have done.
He did help, here:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
We've had this issue before as well - But we just re-imaged the PC.
Time to image to Windows 10. Windows 7 is years out of support and extended support has just a few months left.
ok - but that's not an option - so how do I fix it?
... It could be any number of things from a bug to an application behaving badly to a GPO to a tool that is setting that on a periodic basis. So many possibilities.
Have you checked all of these things?
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@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@Pete-S said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
Check that you have Client for Microsoft Network enabled under networking properties for the LAN adapter.
Thanks @Pete-S I already checked and it is installed and enabled. Still the problem persists.
That was actually for the computer connecting to the share (client), not the one serving the share (server).
But you want to share out a folder on the machine you are having problems with, correct?
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@Pete-S said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@Pete-S said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
Check that you have Client for Microsoft Network enabled under networking properties for the LAN adapter.
Thanks @Pete-S I already checked and it is installed and enabled. Still the problem persists.
That was actually for the computer connecting to the share (client), not the one serving the share (server).
But you want to share out a folder on the machine you are having problems with, correct?
well, upon working on it, I have 2 that are having the same issue.
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Try that but in reverse.
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@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
If it requires an upgrade to the site it goes through sales at our discretion, yes.
It doesn't require an upgrade to the site, it requires a normal desktop patching and maintenance process. There is no change to a license, machine, design, server, hardware, software, etc. Going from Windows 7 to Windows 10 is a normal, required part of the regular patching process.
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@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
Obviously Asking for help was the stupidest thing I could have done.
The issue is you asked for technical help for a business problem. It's great that you are hoping to find a work around to technical limitations imposed by a business process. But it looks like the issues are solely political, not technical. It is what it is.
But it is REALLY important that you did, because you learned a lot more about Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows licensing, how client and server versioning works, and a lot about how your management is operating.
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
If it requires an upgrade to the site it goes through sales at our discretion, yes.
It doesn't require an upgrade to the site, it requires a normal desktop patching and maintenance process. There is no change to a license, machine, design, server, hardware, software, etc. Going from Windows 7 to Windows 10 is a normal, required part of the regular patching process.
So going from and Old OS to a new OS is not an upgrade it's called a patch
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@Obsolesce said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
Try that but in reverse.
Still no luck.
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@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
So going from and Old OS to a new OS is not an upgrade it's called a patch
It's ALL a grey area. ALL patching is an upgrade, all upgrades are patches.
Patching in the Linux world is a command called upgrade. And OS versions are just "major" patch releases.
So yes, absolutely, going from an older OS version to a new is a patch.
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
So going from and Old OS to a new OS is not an upgrade it's called a patch
It's ALL a grey area. ALL patching is an upgrade, all upgrades are patches.
Patching in the Linux world is a command called upgrade. And OS versions are just "major" patch releases.
So yes, absolutely, going from an older OS version to a new is a patch.
Thanks for clarifying.
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@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@Pete-S said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@Pete-S said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
Check that you have Client for Microsoft Network enabled under networking properties for the LAN adapter.
Thanks @Pete-S I already checked and it is installed and enabled. Still the problem persists.
That was actually for the computer connecting to the share (client), not the one serving the share (server).
But you want to share out a folder on the machine you are having problems with, correct?
well, upon working on it, I have 2 that are having the same issue.
One is (one of the many) clients, and the other is sending the share.
It even had a mapped drive that is no longer there.
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@WrCombs Industry standard enumeration for patching is like this (not everyone does this, and there is no rule, it's convention)...
major.minor.release
So a CentOS release might look like 6.9.1511
People refer to it as CentOS 6, normally. But that's just the major number. Other people call it 6.9, but that's just the minor number. When downloading an installer it even includes the 6.9.1511 for the latest release number. Yet every day there are additional itty bitty patches that are even smaller than the release number.
In the Windows world, we work from the NT number for patching. But it works identically. When you use the patch numbers, rather than marketing names of the levels, it becomes relatively clear that all of the upgrades are just patches. They only seem like huge leaps because thousands of patches have been missed in between.
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@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
It even had a mapped drive that is no longer there.
Was it supposed to be there?
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@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
So going from and Old OS to a new OS is not an upgrade it's called a patch
It's ALL a grey area. ALL patching is an upgrade, all upgrades are patches.
Patching in the Linux world is a command called upgrade. And OS versions are just "major" patch releases.
So yes, absolutely, going from an older OS version to a new is a patch.
Thanks for clarifying.
To solve a lot of the confusion around this (because being confused about patching vs upgrading encouraged a lot of people to stop updating their machines feeling that old versions were "different" rather than just "old") Microsoft renamed everything to Windows 10 and now the same release differences as Windows 7 to Windows 8 are done through the normal patch releases and are barely even noticeable in the interface. If you pay close attention, they are there, of course. So if you were running an old Windows 10 and ran updates, you'd subtley see Windows 10 1903 sneak in as one of the updates. But 1903 is a "major release" on par with Windows XP, 7, 8 or similar. So Microsoft has effectively removed even major release numbers from public view specifically so that there would be no (or essentially no) way for customers to feel like they should stay on an old, unpatches version and no way for MSPs or IT pros to try to block upgrades or act like there is a cost involved.
You can see from this scenario alone how important the changes to branding in Windows 10 are for Microsoft, it's astonishing how many customers haven't updated, and how many VARs and MSPs and decision makers intentionally avoid patching or block patching, all based on misunderstandings of release numbers rather than on the realities of code, cost, licensing, etc. So Microsoft rebranded everything to make lay people never see those release numbers anymore.
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@WrCombs this chart makes it more visible when all 18 major and minor Windows NT releases are shown in order. You can see how certain naming made old versions feel like updates, and now we can see that they are just patches in later releases.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/17713/windows-nt-release-history
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Also, just for fun when talking to people....
In the entire history of Windows NT releases, Windows 7 is the ninth release. There are a total of 18. That means Windows 7 is closer in release versions to the very first release in 1993 than it is to the current 1903 release version today!
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
It even had a mapped drive that is no longer there.
Was it supposed to be there?
There was one yesterday when I was working on an unrelated issue.
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
Also, just for fun when talking to people....
In the entire history of Windows NT releases, Windows 7 is the ninth release. There are a total of 18. That means Windows 7 is closer in release versions to the very first release in 1993 than it is to the current 1903 release version today!
Wow, now there's some wonderful perspective!
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@Obsolesce said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
Also, just for fun when talking to people....
In the entire history of Windows NT releases, Windows 7 is the ninth release. There are a total of 18. That means Windows 7 is closer in release versions to the very first release in 1993 than it is to the current 1903 release version today!
Wow, now there's some wonderful perspective!
I know, right? Being able to quickly say things like "Windows 7 is from the first era of Windows" and "it's eleven releases old and we are expecting yet another major release in just a month or two" make people go "wait, what?"
Some people have convinced themselves that Windows 7, 8, and 10 are all that there are... forgetting that 8.1 was a full major release with a bizarre name where 9 should have been, and that Windows 10 isn't a version, but the new name of Windows itself. So they start to behave like they skipped 8 and are just waiting to go to two versions after 7. Making them realize that we've had more versions since 7 than before makes it hard to pretend that they aren't ridiculously out of date.
Running on Windows 7 is like using RHEL 5 or Ubuntu 9.04. Both so old that it sounds completely crazy. Their straightforward naming conventions protected them from that insanity.
