Network Share XP to Vista

[Clayton]

I have my Vista machine sharing D:\ and a XP machine that I use to access
the shared drive on D:\ and has been working fine for a long time, the XP
machine has no password when it logons and never had to use one before nor
did I checked password protected sharing on the Vista machine in Network and
Sharing Center, it would just connect all the time.
Now I am getting access is denied from the XP machine and when I check
password protected sharing in Vista and restart it's ok. sometimes I need to
use the command net use * /delete /yes
Is there a way I can go back to how I had it before, no passwords just
connect?

cheers

 

[Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)]

You should assign the password. If you don't want to setup a password and
turn off password protect doesn't work, you may try to enable guest account
on Vista. Once again, we don't recommend to do so.
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[Clayton]

Thanks for the links Bob, but I keep seeing posts of people saying that I
need to have both computers with the same username and password. Sure this
will work but I have never had to do this before, I build and
configure/repair alot of peoples XP machines and use my Vista shared drive
to install software from.

Password protected sharing works ok
Same username and password works ok

Could be a Vista update that is stopping me from accessing the machine
without the same username and password, both machine have been cleaned
install so firewall software is not the problem here

 

[davdun75]

Try enabling Unhide UPnP icons in Network Places... worked for me.
davdun75 - see my post 11/20/2008 "Xp won't see Vista"

 

[davdun75]

In retrospect, unhiding the icons probably is not the key (simply showed my
gateway in the list of Network Places) so the password issue must be the
key...

 

[davdun75]

I used to have blank passwords but now I create a password (not necessarily
the same) for each computer and enable autologin through regedit...