I have 2 pcs

- one with Vista Home Premium (32 bit/sp2)
- one with XP Home (32 bit/sp3)

I can ping from both machines. I can browse the XP machine from Vista and
copy and paste files. I cannot however do this from the XP machine. I get "x
is not accessible" "access denied" messages instead.

I am sharing a folder on my C drive called "downloads" and have checked
permissions (I've chosen Everyone) The Guest Account is turned on in user
accounts.

Anything else I could try? Thanks in advance

LX wrote:

I have 2 pcs

- one with Vista Home Premium (32 bit/sp2)
- one with XP Home (32 bit/sp3)

I can ping from both machines. I can browse the XP machine from Vista and
copy and paste files. I cannot however do this from the XP machine. I get
"x is not accessible" "access denied" messages instead.

I am sharing a folder on my C drive called "downloads" and have checked
permissions (I've chosen Everyone) The Guest Account is turned on in user
accounts.

Create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. You do not need
to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords
assigned to each user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just
need to exist and match on all machines. DO NOT NEGLECT TO CREATE
PASSWORDS, EVEN IF ONLY SIMPLE ONES. If you wish a machine to boot directly
to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for convenience, you
can do this:

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

Vista - Start OrbSearch boxtype: netplwiz [enter]
Click on Continue (or supply an administrator's password) when prompted by
UAC

Uncheck the option "Users must enter a user name and password to use this
computer". Select a user account to automatically log on by clicking on the
desired account to highlight it and then hit OK. Enter the correct password
for that user account (if there is one) when prompted. Leave it blank if
there is no password (null).

"Everyone" means every user account on the *local* system in a Workgroup.

Malke
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