Accessing drive on Win 8 from Win XP

[Curio]

This has got me pulling my hair out. Trying to share a drive in my Win 8 machine with my Win XP machine. The drive shows up in XP, but when I click it just says "you might not have permission to use this blah, blah, blah...access denied"

Tried turning firewalls off.
Tried changing the sharing permissions.
Tried resetting everything and running the network wizard in XP

Can Win XP and Win 8 just not talk to each other?

 

[PhillyDee]

Have you got a password protected account on the windows xp and the windows 8 pc? I find this is a massive cause of issues.

 

[Tealc]

I had similar trouble with a Vista machine and Windows 7 shared drive.

I created a new user on the W7 and use that to access remotely. I just enter the username and password on the Vista machine when it comes up. I have the user account hidden so it doesn't get in the way.

 

[Curio]

I had similar trouble with a Vista machine and Windows 7 shared drive.

I created a new user on the W7 and use that to access remotely. I just enter the username and password on the Vista machine when it comes up. I have the user account hidden so it doesn't get in the way.

Thanks. Can you explain what you did a little more? Not quite sure I follow how you're doing it. Cheers

 

[PistolPete]

One thing you could try:

Duplicate the Windows XP account on the Windows 8 machine - ie.
If you login as "Fred" with password "ILikeHorses" on the XP machine then create an account on the Windows 8 machine called "Fred" with the password "ILikeHorses".
Share the files you need on the Win 8 machine to Fred (or if Fred is an admin you can hit the hidden root shares) and connect from the XP machine.

 

[Tealc]

Been a few weeks but something like this.

Create a new account on the W8 machine, something memorable for username and password.

On the XP machine when you try an access the share it'll come up with a username and password dialog. Enter the same information as you set up on the W8 machine. You should get access.

There's an option in W7 to hide the account so it doesn't appear at first log in.

This works between Vista and W7. I've no idea if it works the same way with W8.

Actually just read the post above and that's very similar. I have my shares just shared with everyone, rather than specific users.

 

[Curio]

Thanks guys - I'll try that and report back.

 

[Curio]

Update: It worked a treat! Created two identical user accounts and - BAM - suddenly it could connect to the shared drive.

Thanks!