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Thanks for all of your suggestions. I will give it a go over the next few days.

Turned off firewalls - no luck I'm afraid. As i have said I can access a shared hard drive on win7 machine from the windows 8 machine. The only thing I can access from the win 7 machine on the win 8 machine is the 'Users' folder but no shared HD's. They all come up with the permissions access...

Thanks for your replies: I am running Kaspersky but have tried switching off - no luck. My router.hub is BT Hub 5. Sharing is enabled both through the sharing tab and security to allow Everyone. As I have said my settings worked on the old windows 8 - problems only started to occur when I...

OK - I now manage to access a shared drive on my Windows 7 PC from Windows 8.1 - read write etc. all good ( found that encryption setting on Windows 8.1 was wrong . However cannot do the same for the Windows 8.1 machine from the Windows 7. Can't see what I am doing wrong?

I have 2 machines connected via my router/hub (wired). One is running Windows 8.1 and the other Windows 7. Previously I had them sharing perfectly until I did a reinstall of Windows 8 (upgraded to Windows 8.1). I get this message on both machines whilst trying to access shared drives...