Vista - Unable to map XP Share in Vista - Authenication Fails

Hi,I originally had a WinXP computer which had some mapped drives, one of these being to a shared folder on my work laptop.The mapped drives were used so I could run a Robocopy script to backup my laptop to my WinXP computer.Prior to wiping out WinXP and installing Vista 32 Home Premium, I took a screenshot of my mapped drives.Now I can seem to get Vista to map the shared drive on my laptop. It keeps prompting me for a username and password even though I used the same username and password that I use when I log into my WinXP Pro laptop. When I first go to map the drive, I select the option to "Connect using a different username"In Vista, if I go to Windows Explorer and expand the Network, I can see my laptop (called "Maxs_Laptop")I have set up the same IP address on my Vista machine as there was when it had WinXP Home running on it and the Workgroup has also been set to the same.Furthermore, I've turned off Windows Firewall as I use Zonealarm and I've set a range of IP addresses as being trusted.What am I doing wrong, or what is changed in Vista that I have to adjust?BTW, I can connect to mapped drives on my loungeroom PC which is running WinXP Home, but I think the reason I can is that the loungeroom PC doesn't prompt for a login/password on bootup, whereas my work laptop (WinXP Pro) does.Thanks

I'm sorry if you covered this, but I'm having trouble understanding: Are you trying to map a drive on a Vista machine to an XP machine or vice versa?

If you are mapping Vista to XP, you may need to check your Control Panel->Network and Sharing Center. Find your connection (it may already be displayed) and make sure the "File Sharing" flag is on.

mad max

If you set up file and print sharing properly you shouldn't need to map the drive...nothing stopping you from doing it but you don;t need to.

are you connecting all PC's through the same router?

Hi guys,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you but I've been away on a business trip.

NickViper1024 - I am mapping a drive on my Vista PC (Office_PC) to a shared directory on my WinXP Pro Laptop.

When I go "Network and Sharing Center" 5 of the 6 settings under "Sharing and Discovery" (eg Network Discovery) are set to "On", whilst the "Printer Sharing" setting is the only one turned off.

In the "Tasks" list which is in the panel to the left, if I click on "View Computers and Devices", I get a Windows Explorer view of the Network folder. As mentioned in my original post: . When I click on this, I am prompted for my username and password, and although I enter the correct information, it keeps prompting me, saying that the information is incorrect.

Clevo - I'm not sure how I can access files on my laptop if I don't map to the drive. Furthermore, I need to map to the shared folders so it has a specific drive letters as I am running a Robocopy script which utilises these drive letters.

Thanks

I'm having some problems with the Vista/XP networking world myself, this being one of them. I have a Dell XP Pro networked with two HP Vista Laptops, one Ultimate x64 and one Home Premium x32. For what its worth, I have discovered that the standalone drive connected via USB to the XP box I mapped to my Vista x64 cannot be opened by double clicking, but CAN be opened by right clicking and clicking open or "Explore." I don't know what effect if any that will have with Robocopy but I thought I'd put that out there. Quite an inconvenience, I know, and I haven't the foggiest why it is that way. The error I get says "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access them." Open to any ideas...

Hi,

Unfortunately I can't map the drive, so there's nothing for me to right click on .

Can you not see the laptop under my network places in the workgroup?

I'm currently at work, so the following is based on my memory of what happened. Even though "Maxs_Laptop" showed under Network, clicking on it prompted me for a username and password. When I enter my laptop's username and password (which I do everyday at work, so I'm 100% sure there was no typos, especially after all the attempts), it is still saying it's wrong.

At work, I'm always mapping drives although in my work environment we don't have Vista, but the principal is the same. ie Select the path, click on "logon as a different user", enter your username and password and Voila - you have a mapped drive. Yet for some reason, Vista won't let me map to my XP Pro laptop. I had no problem doing it when the office PC had WinXP Home on it. Also I'm having no problems mapping to my loungeroom PC which has WinXP Home (but don't forget that it boots directly into the OS without asking for a username/password, unlike my work laptop) and my Ubuntu computer's shared drives.

I appreciate any suggestions, so keep them coming, but I am getting very frustrated with Vista as there are other issues that I'm having. These include:

1. my digital TV card is pixalating when either viewing TV or recording it - I've updated my Video and Sound drivers as well as drivers for the digital TV Card and the Support personnel from the VideoMate DVB-T300 company are still trying to determine why. Especially when under WinXP on the same computer it runs flawlessly.
2. VNC programs don't work anymore. Admittedly the company's such as TightVNC will need to bring out updated software, but obviously there's some security setting which is stopping programs from being backward compatible. I used VNC to remote into my loungeroom computer to set up recording schedules on that digital TV card as trying to do it in the loungeroom with the computer outputting to a TV meant that the text wasn't very clear.
3. I tried to install Cyberlink PowerDVD 6 thinking that installing a DVD player might install some Codec which may resolve issue 1 above, but on trying to run the program after installing it, Vista told me that it wasn't compatible and I would need to upgrade the program. Once again, an operating system should allow programs to be backwardly compatible. What used to run on XP should be able to run on Vista. I can understand that the reverse wouldn't be true - ie a program designed for Vista may not run on WinXP.
4. I right click on a file, eg a robocopy batch file, and go into the properties and mark it so it runs as Administrator, but when I run it, I still get a pop-up asking whether I allow it or not. I've found out from trial and error when my robocopy script which copies files from one local hard drive (D Drive) to another local hard drive (E Drive) would hang on the first directory it came across because not running it as Administrator meant that it couldn't over-write any files that had changed.

Last night I was looking at the event viewer to see if there were any messages that might help as the last week or so I've been getting a Rundle32 error on bootup, and I have over 1000 critical errors (once again, this is from memory) even though I only installed Vista prior to Christmas when I had some time off work.

I actually purchased Vista but didn't install it straight away for 2 reasons:

1. I was waiting until I had at least a whole day to devote to installing the OS, drivers, programs etc
2. Was hoping SP1 would come out.

I've heard that SP1 will fix a lot of problems and perhaps it might fix the VNC and remote mapping problem. I can't wait for it to be released.

Sorry for the rant, but as I get more and more frustrated and my productivity on Vista is declining, I just feel like I have to vent my frustrations.

If SP1 doesn't fix my problem with the digital TV card for example, then I'll either think about moving it over to the Ubuntu box or wiping Vista and going back to XP. I'm only learning with Ubuntu, but it's pointless having a digital TV card that records shows that are unwatchable due to lines of pixalation and/or audio/visual sync issues etc.

FYI, my system is AMD Dual Core x64 4800+, 2GB RAM, 2 x 250GB SATA drives, 1 x SATA DVD drive, and my video card was upgraded last week from nVidia 7100 128mb to a RADEON 3850 256mb card (thinking an updated card may help my TV Card issue).

Cheers

MadMax, sorry if you've covered this but have you tried turning off password protected sharing? If so, have you tried making a new user account on the machine you're mapping from and typing that in on the prompt? Both of these options have worked for me when I had this problem.

Hi joshua.queen,

I gather that what you mean by turning off password protected sharing is the settings on my Vista box called "network and sharing centre"? If so, 5 of the 6 settings under "Sharing and Discovery" (eg Network Discovery) are set to "On", whilst the "Printer Sharing" setting is the only one turned off. I will try turning this off.

As for creating a username/password on my Vista PC at home which matches the username/password that I log onto the WinXP Pro laptop with, I will try that out on the weekend (after trying the password protected setting above) as I leave my laptop at work during the week as I don't use it after-hours on a weekday (too much else to do around the house). I have to admit that if it works, it would be great, but it's an unusual workaround.

Never having more than one user account on my home PC's, I assume that creating this 2nd user won't stop my Vista PC from logging in automatically under the current user?

I will let you know how I go.