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can't access XP share from Vista

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by scomel_2000

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I recently purchased a new laptop with Vista Home Premium Edition. I have a desktop running XP Home Edition. I set up a network, put both in the same workgroup, etc., but I can't access a share I created on the XP desktop from my Vista laptop. I see the XP box in my Vista network map, I can see multiple shared printers, and I can open the Shared Documents directory on the desktop. The problem is I can't open another share I set up on the XP box. I get the "\\computername\sharename is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator..." blah blah error message.

When setting up the XP share, I enabled "share this folder on the network" and "allow network users to change my files".

Any ideas? I'd really like to be able to move over my music and pictures without purchasing a large external drive to make the transfers.

Thanks!

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by p.j.hutchison

Are the computers in the same Workgroup?
Are you using a username and password the same as the one on the XP box? If not try connecting using alternative credentials (use Map Network Drive feature)?

Sometimes, changing the NTLM security policy on vista to allow it to connect using NTLM v1 rather than the new NTLMv2. Use secpol.msc to change it.

by scomel_2000

Thanks for the suggestions. I ended up moving up the directory tree a bit and sharing at a higher level. For some reason, that worked and allowed me to navigate to the lower level folder I originally tried to share. I also had a reboot in there of the xp box, so one of those two things seemmed to fix the problem.

Thanks again!

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