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**barman58** · 11-25-2008

Hi all,

Just as an addendum to this ...

one workaround I have found to work is in the vista search bar type the address of the XP share in the format \\xpcomputername\sharename and you should see the XP share.

Often in fact if you type just the \\xpcomputername\ part, available shares will display in the file list above the search bar

This should also work in the location bar in explorer

Hope this helps

11-25-2008	#9 (permalink)
barman58 Post No Evil ;) Join Date: Jul 2008 Windows 7 RC x64 Vista HP x86 1,682 posts	Re: File Sharing between XP Home and Vista Ultimate x64 Hi all, Just as an addendum to this ... one workaround I have found to work is in the vista search bar type the address of the XP share in the format \\xpcomputername\sharename and you should see the XP share. Often in fact if you type just the \\xpcomputername\ part, available shares will display in the file list above the search bar This should also work in the location bar in explorer Hope this helps
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