vista can not access xp, but xp can access visat

External Since: Sep 30, 2007 Posts: 1

glynns10;2529886 Wrote:
> can someone help me please, here is my problem.. i have a machine with
> windows xp pro and a machine with windows vista home premuin, on my
> xp
> machine i can access or download files ect that are on my vista
> machine. but
> my vista machine cannot access my xp machine at all. what i want to do
> is
> share my printer and test folder on my xp machine with my vista
> machine. i
> have files sharing and network discovery on , on my vista machine, and
> i have
> file sharing and printer is shared on my xp machine. i have tried
> everything
> i can think of anyone can you help me please? also i was testing
> windows
> ultimate, and i had no problems, all this worked. you may e-mail me
> at
> glynnsoileau.RemoveThis@bellsouth.net..

You Need to Enable net bios over Tcp/ip That worked for me after hours
of messing with windows firewall hope this helps.

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I had the same problems until today. What I found is that if I had simple file sharing enabled on my XP machine, then I would need to set the Guest user group access to Power Users or Administrators to get it to work. By default, the Guest user only is a member of the Guests group.

If I turn off the simple file sharing, then it also works as long as I have users and passwords the same on all PCs.