Password Protected Sharing Problem

[rickw]

I have a Vista Home Premium based laptop and a Vista Home Premium based
desktop on a home network. Networking seems to work fine except that Laptop
can only access the shared folders on (and the printer connected to) the
desktop after provision of a user name and password even though "Password
Protected Sharing" is "Off" on both computers.

Has anybody else experienced this and if so found a solution?

 

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

You may want to create the same username on both computers. Please post back
with the result.

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[RAYMOND]

I HAVE VISTA BUSINESS ON DELL DESTOP COMPUTER, ONE WINDOWS SERVER 2003 R2 IN
SERVER COMPUTER, AND ONE WINDOWS XP COMPUTER ON NETWORK. ALL COMPUTER CAN
SHARE ALL THE SHARED FOLDERS. THE VISTA COMPUTER CAN NOT SHOW THE SHARED
FOLDERS ON WINDOWS SERVER 2003 R2 COMPUTER BUT VISTA CAN SHOW ALL SHARED
FOLDERS ON WINDOWS XP CPMPUTER. HOW I CAN SOLVE THIS PROBLEM.

RAYMOND

 

[rickw]

Thanks Robert L - that seemed to do the trick. Just seems odd that you need
to do this with Pasword Protected Sharing Off.

Regards

rickw

 

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

Thank you for the feedback.

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Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
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