Windows 7 not showing up in Shared

[TwiztedTD]

Hi everyone, I have a windows 7 pro machine and a MAC OSX.

My Mac used to be able to see my Windows XP machine in the shared spot in Finder.

Now ive replaced it with a new Windows 7 pro machine, and it no longer shows up in the shared spot under finder.

I can go to Go > Connect to Server > and connect that way.

But once I reboot, the Windows 7 pro machine is gone.

Thank you for your help.

 

[Mac-Michael]

Possibly this:

This sounds like a "Computer Browser" problem.

Since you do not have a proper windows 2000/2003/2008 server serving as a WINS server.



Set the Win 7 service for Computer browser to automatically start.

 

[dacoolest]

I had the same issue. It used to show windows computers on the sidebar but then suddenly disappeared. But then I found that although its not automatically being listed in sidebar, i can get it by secondary clicking on the finder icon on the dock and then selecting "connect to server" or something.

 

[TwiztedTD]

Computer browser is set to auto and is running when I try this.

Anyone else had this issue?

I have heard about going to the finder and then connect to server... I was just hoping there would be a way to make this work easier. The person isnt to computer literate.