Marc

I did have a similar problem (XP Home -> Vista RC1) and the only things that
seemed to actually help beyond what you have done were to:

1. make sure I had a Guest account which was enabled on the Vista machine
2. Turn "Password Protected Sharing" OFF in the Network and Sharing Center

- Marc


"wildtrout" wrote:

> Hi , Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. We recently purchased a
> new Linksys WRT54G version 5. We have 2 PCs, both wired to the router. One
> runs Windows XP and vista RC1 on the other. We used the Linksys “easylink
> connect” to set up the network. We have set folders to “shared” on both. The
> workgroup names are the same on both. On both machines we are able to see all
> the folders on the other machine which are set to share. We have also set all
> the sharing and permission settings we can find to “allow anyone to do
> anything”. When we click on a shared folder on the other machine, we get an
> error message “\\Patty-pc\C is not accessible. You might not have permission
> to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to
> find out if you have access permissions. Access is denied.” We are able to
> access the internet on both machines. We also tried the Easylink advisor.
> Everything seemed fine. The router and network seem to be working fine. Seems
> like this is a problem with permissions or priveleges. I’ve looked everywhere
> for any way to get access. Any ideas on resolving this would be greatly
> appreciated.
> Bob Hansen
>