On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:19:49 -0700, Kemps <kemps@optonline.net> 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 -
Are the XP computers running XP Home, or XP Pro? If Pro, is Simple File Sharing
Enabled or Disabled?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Simple>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...xp.html#Simple
Be sure to set the Network Location Type on the Vista computers to Private. And
set Password Protected Sharing to match the file sharing setup on the XP
computers.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/12/windows-xp-and-vista-on-lan-together.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/1...-together.html
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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
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