Vista Network Share Woes

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4 computers on a network: XP Pro, Vista Basic, Vista Premium & Vista Business.

Premium has the printer, XP and Basic connect to Premium without a problem - i may have to enter a password occasionally.
When i try to connect my laptop (Business) to Premium i just get a 'Permission Denied' error, i do not get the option to enter a password. Yesterday i mapped a network drive to this computer using an alternative username etc, and all of a sudden i was able to get to the printer. Today, although the mapped drive is still set up, i cannot connect to Premium.
I think there was a time when i couldn't remember the password for the Premium laptop and kept entering the wrong one - would this be the reason its giving me so many problems? If so can i reset this somehow?

Im sure if i was just given to option to enter a password when try to connect it would all work fine again.

XP and Basic are connect via cable, Premium & Business via wireless.
All other computers can see each other, with no problems at all.

Cheers
 
gumbald said:
Do you have the same account name but with a different password? This caused me much headaches.
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that would be my guess

vista business is trying a username and password that doesnt validate, but on a password that exists, so it doesnt prompt you to enter one like when connecting from the XP machine.
 
Get something very similar myself but with XP, main PC with shared printer, laptop connects to the share and prints fine, try it again the next day and you get an effective access denied on the printer. The reason for this in my case is that I do have the same username setup on both systems but the password differ and after a reboot it then tries to re-connect to the printer share using my logon credentials.
 
It puzzled me for ages because it didn't even prompt for the password, but my housemates could authenticate as guest fine!
 
I'd turned everything like that, we all have shared folders, so that was what I was trying to connect to. And struggled.
 
gumbald said:
Do you have the same account name but with a different password? This caused me much headaches.
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Sorry, forgot i posted this.

If you mean the same username on both laptops, then no, only one laptop is mine. If just had similar problems trying to save a document to the XP machine and also got 'Access Denied'! Getting a tad confused now.

The username and password on the Basic pc is the same as on the Business laptop.

Does Microsoft make this awkward on purpose :( What was wrong with the way XP did networking?
 
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