What you may need to do is creating the same username on both computers.
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"JGH" <JGH@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I done everything conceivable to enable my two PCs, one with XP the other
> with Vista, to access each other over my home network. The workgroup name
> is
> the same on both machines, access is set to Everyone on the Vista machine,
> (however, when trying to share specific drives, folders, etc. I can't add
> the
> users from the XP machine location because I can't see the location on
> Vista), the network is marked Private in Vista, in cmd I pinged both
> machines
> from each other and got good responses, I changed the registry setting on
> the
> XP machine to "0" for anonymous. I'm running out of ideas. Is this an
> Ipv4
> vs Ipv6 issue?
> --
> Out