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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:
@WrCombs said in Windows 7 File and Printer Sharing wont turn on:
"to upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10 the customer will have to buy a new Server ( hardware) or they would have to purchase a windows 10 license. "
Right, but that's ALL lies. Windows 10 is free for owners of Windows 7, and has absolutely nothing to do with the server. This is a free upgrade for all owners of Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. Someone is trying to totally screw the customer.
OH yeah, forgot about that it's still free. Haven't seen win7 for a long time now lol.
IKR? We do Windows 7 upgrades pretty often now that people are panicking.
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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:
@Obsolesce 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're pushing all of customers to upgrade to windows 10 anyway, But that doesn't fix the fact that I cant do anything to fix the issue now - SO my site is basically down during their busiest time of the day.
But only because they are choosing to be down rather than allowing you to fix, correct? Is there anything holding back the Windows 10 fix other than them simply refusing to do so?
price.
So it's s cheaper to be closed down several days a year than to buy a Win10 license? Sounds like a busy place LOL!
price because we're told to forward these calls to sales people.
they sell new server (as hardware)So to make this clear...
ALL of the options and cost here are "your sales peoples' decisions" and not technical, honest, or real. The problem with this is... nothing we do or say here matters. This is about how much damage your sales person can do to the client and nothing else. There is no "IT decision" involved. So while we can point out how evil and unprofessional and unethical this is (and actually illegal, selling something based on a lie is an actual crime) there is nothing we can do about it and likely nothing you can do (or should) about it. The client is a buffoon to use a company that is so blatantly crooks, and the company obviously doesn't have any ethics. They are made for each other, who cares.
If it requires an upgrade to the site it goes through sales at our discretion, yes.
Obviously Asking for help was the stupidest thing I could have done.
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Check that you have Client for Microsoft Network enabled under networking properties for the LAN adapter. Same place where you find tcp/ip enabled, QoS etc.
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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!
