Visa and XP File Sharing

[OldManEd]

I have XP on my desktop and Vista Home Premium on my laptop.

I have enabled selective file (folder) sharing on both machines; mainly
document folders.

My Vista machine 'sees' everything I've shared on my XP machine; my XP sees
nothing on my Vista machine. I get the standard error message on XP, 'You
don't have permissions....'

What additional actions are needed (to Vista) to allow it to share selective
folders with my XP machine??? I am a single user with administrative
privileges. I do not used passwords on either machine; is this mandatory on
Vista?

OldEd

 

[Chuck]

I have XP on my desktop and Vista Home Premium on my laptop.

I have enabled selective file (folder) sharing on both machines; mainly
document folders.

My Vista machine 'sees' everything I've shared on my XP machine; my XP sees
nothing on my Vista machine. I get the standard error message on XP, 'You
don't have permissions....'

What additional actions are needed (to Vista) to allow it to share selective
folders with my XP machine??? I am a single user with administrative
privileges. I do not used passwords on either machine; is this mandatory on
Vista?

OldEd

Ed,

Did you set the Vista Network Location Type to Private, to open the firewall
properly? If you have a single user network, and you truly want to open the
Vista computer to your network, then disable password protected sharing, and
enable the Guest account.
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx#EED>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx#EED

 

[Guest]

Are you running any third party fire walls? I had this same problem with my
laptop and pc, I was running Nortons Internet security, I found that even
though I had entered the network range into the firewall, the intrusion
prevention was screwing it all up. Once I entered the ip's for all the pc's
on the network into the trusted page of the intrusion prevention everything
worked fine.

Linda

 

[OldManEd]

Thanks, this kb(?) article worked for me. I disabled password protection and
gave 'everyone' permissions.
Now have complete file sharing both ways between Vista laptop and XP
desktop.
I am not running Norton's firewall; just Windows' and the router's
firewalls.
OldEd

 

[Chuck]

Thanks, this kb(?) article worked for me. I disabled password protection and
gave 'everyone' permissions.
Now have complete file sharing both ways between Vista laptop and XP
desktop.
I am not running Norton's firewall; just Windows' and the router's
firewalls.
OldEd

That's the simplest way to go. Thanks for the update.