In the Vista computers go into Network Sharing and turn off Password Protected
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx
"Kemps" wrote:
> I haven't yet found the answers to these problems, so . . . we have
> two laptops and two desktops on a wireless home network, one each
> Vista and one each XP. I'm trying to establish full sharing amongst
> the user community (me and my children) and can't even get the Vista
> devices to recognize each other.
>
> The specific problems:
>
> 1) The Vista laptop can "see" C:\ on the Vista desktop, but cannot
> access it ("access denied"). This despite setting desktop C:\ sharing
> to "Share". Where should I go for clues to fix this?
> 2) The Vista laptop can "see" a Lexmark printer connected to the
> Vista desktop, but cannot print to it (a password dialog box comes up,
> despite not having password protection enabled on the desktop). Where
> should I go for clues to fix this?
>
> I'm semi-dreading fixing these problems, since my next step will be to
> get the two XP devices to recognize everything too.
>
> Thanks for whatever help you can give me -
>
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