vista-XP network

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I own a compaq presario 920ea (windows XP), an bought last week a HP pavilion
6535ea (windows vista) to replace it. Unfortunatly I can't conect the
computers trough a network. I tried a crosslink cable, a hub and 2 diferent
routers. I have disabled both firewals (Zonealarm and norton internet
security respectively) and tried a lot. I can see the drives, directories,
files and even the miniatures of the fotos in both computers (they are
shared), but i can't copy files beteen computers. They start copiyng and them
I get the mesage "Lost access to the location...".
I Can't figure where the problem lies, i'm considering returning the
computer to the store (I've already lost two weeks to this problem).

 

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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx

The above link: file and printersharing in Vista.
Have you tried the following:
In Vista Networking and Sharing:
1 Network Discovery ON
2 File Sharing ON
3 Public Folder Sharing ON
4 Password Protected OFF
5 and the Network should be set to “Privateâ€

And have you made sure that the workgroup names are the same on XP and Vista.
By default XP is MSHOME and Vista is WORKGROUP; they should be the same.
Also "Shared Docs" in XP is called "Public Folder" in Vista