Shared Folders & Ping

[chadgmcd]

I am having trouble getting an XP Home and Vista Business machine to connect
to shared folders. The shared folder is on the Vista machine. When I go to
the XP machine and go to run and type \\vistacomputer\shared is says the
network resource is unavailable and it will not ping either.

But if I go to the vista machine and \\XPMachine\shared i can open the XP
machine's shared folder. Then after I have done that if I go back to the XP
machine and type in \\vistacomputer\shared it will bring up the shared
folders just fine.

Why do I have to do this to connect to the vista machine from XP. Any ideas?

 

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

We have seen a similar case like this one. It could be 3 rd party software.
For troubleshooting, try clean boot. Please post back with the result.

Windows generalHow to run Windows OS with a clean boot · How to Run Windows
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[chadgmcd]

I am still having the same problem they can only connect if the vista machin
initiates the connection.