Cannot access XP network share from Vista machine

[SinaiSound]

I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure out this problem

I'm trying to connect to my XP machine in the front room from my vista machine in my bedroom.

The vista machine can see the xp machine in networks, but everytime I enter the username and password, it tells me that the logon was unsuccessful

The administrator account on each machine both has the same password.

Any ideas

 

[Fothsn]

Try and disable password sharing in Vista's networking center,

Edit/ thats if its on

 

[marc2003]

Try and disable password sharing in Vista's networking center,

Edit/ thats if its on

that's for connecting to vista, not using vista to connect to xp....

as for the problem, check firewalls? check usernames/passwords definitely match (if you've only just set these, you'll need to logout and back in again for it to take effect). other than that, i don't know. never had a problem with windows networking. always works for me.

 

[Fothsn]

that's for connecting to vista, not using vista to connect to xp....

Still worth a try

Or maybe try and disable your passworded shares in XP and try to connect if that doesn’t work I haven’t got a clue

 

[skanky]

try this: http://www.thewebjedi.com/cs/blogs/meditations/archive/2006/09/17/25.aspx ?

 

[SinaiSound]

Thanks for the tips so far guys.

The annoying thing, is that it was working a few weeks ago

I'm going to disable the account password for the administrator on the XP machine to see if that has an effect. Not an ideal solution though as I remote desktop into that machine, so I need a password; although I could create a seperate account with a password for doing that.

 

[Deleted member 58846]

try accessing it directly

start > run
\\[ip address]

OR

map a drive to that share using authentication methods

start > run > cmd
net use X: \\[ip address]\share /USER:administrator password