Tiberius

what happens if you type in the windows explorer window the following:

\\COMPUTERNAME

where computer name is the name of the vista computer?

You should see some things there, try it from the xp machine and try it
again from the vista machine (yes to see if it sees itself).

Do you have some firewall that may be blocking something?
In vista it has a yello information bar at some point that asks you if you
want to use autodiscovery..
did you do that?

is this a newtwork with static IP addresses or do you have a router that
uses DHCP?




"busyinla" <busyinla@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have been unable to access my shared files from my home's XP machines to
>my
> Vista Ultimate machine. On the Vista machine, I have enabled the guest
> account, enabled all of the file sharing, enabled sharing to "everyone,"
> "Guest," and anything else I could find, and made sure sharing was enabled
> on
> the folders I wanted shared. Password protection is disabled. I am able
> to
> access files on my XP machines from my Vista machine, but not the reverse.
> The name of the network is consistent on all of the machines. I have
> tried
> everything I have found written in these groups to no avail. I have been
> working on this for days! Does anyone have any ideas for me?