Xp to Vista drive mapping & sharing

[ell]

Hi, I helped a friend set up his new vista pc today and can't get through a security hurdle with vista/xp. I enabled sharing of files in vista and made it a public profile, disabled firewalls, enabled sharing of everything, BUT the xp machine is unable to access the vista, it can see the files no prob but I when i try to open them I get a permission error everytime i try to access. Same with trying to network the vista printer to the xp machine. What am i missing? I had no trouble at all doing this xp to xp!!!

 

[Methical]

I had a problem with Vista to XP sharing..

The XP machine could see the Vista shared files, but Vista couldn't see XP..

It was just a matter of turning on Simple File Sharing in XP and voila.

Is Vista set to file share to?

 

[ell]

I had a problem with Vista to XP sharing..

The XP machine could see the Vista shared files, but Vista couldn't see XP..

It was just a matter of turning on Simple File Sharing in XP and voila.

Is Vista set to file share to?

my problem is the other way around, the vista can access the xp files, but xp can't access vista. I think i may have found the problem, i didn't realize vista comes with a default workgroup name that is different than xp, i'll go over and change that to match xp's and see if it helps!!

 

[angry_geek]

Turn off password protected sharing in network and sharing center. Kind of a sledge hammer approach, but it will work. Another option is to set up a password protected admin account on the vista machine. Then access the share from the xp machine using those credentials.

 

[ell]

Solved!

Ok, I'm going to post this so I can refer back to it and maybe help others too. I had enabled all sharing, and disabled passwords, and made both network groups MSHOME, but still the XP machine could not map or access the shared folder it could see it but kept getting denied permission. I FINALLY right-clicked on the "shared" folder (it had the shared symbol on it already) and found I had to add the word EVERYONE in the user box, then check all the boxes to write/change etc in permissions. geez vista is such a pain in *@#

 

[ibamars]

Nice. Gotta love Vista