Vista Tutorial - Home networking - new Vista PC with an older PC running Windows XP

Perhaps someone could help this neophyte with a home network problem. After
setting up home networking on both PCs, the XP machine seems to have full
networking access. I can see files on my Vista machine and I can print to a
printer connected to my Vista machine. On my Vista PC, I can see the XP
computer, but I keep getting error messages when attempting to access the
shared files on the XP computer. The edit basically says that I don't have
the necessary permissions to access the XP machine. I'm an administrator on
both PCs, the network names are the same and the XP machine now runs webBios
over TCP/IP. Still didn't work. Any suggestions? Thanks
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rainman

rainman wrote:
> Perhaps someone could help this neophyte with a home network problem. After
> setting up home networking on both PCs, the XP machine seems to have full
> networking access. I can see files on my Vista machine and I can print to a
> printer connected to my Vista machine. On my Vista PC, I can see the XP
> computer, but I keep getting error messages when attempting to access the
> shared files on the XP computer. The edit basically says that I don't have
> the necessary permissions to access the XP machine. I'm an administrator on
> both PCs, the network names are the same and the XP machine now runs webBios
> over TCP/IP. Still didn't work. Any suggestions? Thanks

Create identical user accounts and passwords on both machines. If you
wish to boot directly to the Desktop into one particular account for
convenience, see:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm


Malke
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