HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!
I have 3 machines in my home. - Dell 9200 running Vista Ultimate Upgrade from an XP Pro SP2 - Desktop with Win XP Pro SP2 - Desktop with Win XP Home I want to be able to share and transfer files among the 3 machines and use the printer connected to the XP Home Machine. I was told that using a workgroup is my best bet. I joined a workgroup on all 3 machines. I will call the workgroup "HOME". The problem is that I can't see machines on half of them and can't connect to any of them. Each machine has different symptoms. XP Home - I can see all 3 machines. I can't connect to the other 2. I am told that access is denied due to permissions. XP Pro - I can't see any machine in the workgroup except for its own. I am able to remote into this machine from the Vista machine but that is it. Vista - I am able to see all of the machines on the "Network Map" but I can't find any connection to them anywhere else. When I attempt to view all machines on the network I can only see the machine I am on. Are the OS incompatible?? Is this a permission issue?? I would love any advice on this issue. I searched through these forums and found some recomendations for similiar issues but none worked for me. I would really like to be able to connect at least the Vista and XP Pro machine. Thanks in advance for any help.
January 31st, 2007 9:06pm

HI pleasemake surethe guest account is enabledin XP Home and PRO if not , enable it please when you share yourfolder , youneed add a permission both shareTab and security Tab if your harddisk is NTFS format you connect the three machine by switch or HUB? if yes , can you ping other machine's IP addressin one of machines haveyou try to access other machine by UAC?like \\192.168.0.1 in the RUN window the XP and Vista have not compatibility issue ,I promise
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February 2nd, 2007 1:00pm

try this: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=70582 installer on your XP machines reboot everything, and it should work. It did for me.
February 3rd, 2007 12:41am

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