http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb727037.aspx
Have a read of the above link re Vista File and Printer Sharing.
How to give Permissions are there, too.
1st thing to do is make sure that the Workgroup Name of ALL the computers is
the SAME.
In Vista Network and Sharing:
Network Discovery: ON (So it can see the other computers)
Network set to Private (Public is for hotspots, airports, etc)
File Sharing: ON
Public Folder Sharing: ON (Vista’s Public Folder is the same as XP’s Shared
Docs)
Password Protected: OFF (unless you want to set up identical usernames and
passwords on ALL computers in your Network) If you have it ON, you will be
asked for a username and password when you try to access a Vista computer
from an XP computer.
Also, run the XP’s Home Network File and Printer sharing Wizard.
"JGH" wrote:
Quote:
> 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