Acess the C$ and D$ on Vista Laptop from XP PC

[sheldondsouza]

Okay have

PC- Windows XP P4
Laptop - Windows Vista Home Premium P4

On my computer i added a Wireless PCI Card and set it up for broadcasting the signal and from my laptop, i connected to it.

Gave the

PC : IP address 192.168.0.1 Computername XP-PC
Laptop : IP 192.168.0.2 Computername Vista-PC

Have Norton 360 on both of them so gave proper rules to allow the connections to pass through each other smoothly

I can ping from PC to laptop and vice versa with no problem

Can access the shares from both PC and laptop with no problem


Problem.

On laptop when i enter in run \\192.168.0.1\c$ or d$ i can enter with no problems but when on PC i enter \\192.168.0.2\c$ or d$, i am greeted with username and password dialog box.

Since the username is Sheldon (administrator account) and password is sheldon on both PC and laptop, dont know why it brings this dialog

Still inspite of reentering the details the dialog keeps coming back with username as Vista-PC\Sheldon.

Right Click computer and manage and in shares, i see C$ and D$ present on Vista Laptop.

Why does not Vista allow XP to connect to its C$ or D$ but allows to access its shared folder with no problems ?

Where as XP allows Vista to access C$ and D$ including share folder with not problems.

I even disabled the firewall on both systems and even created additional two new same accounts with password; thinking it may work but no luck


Has anyone faced this problem? and is there a solution.

[sheldondsouza]

Anyone ?

[sheldondsouza]

Can anyone help me please?

[freakinprince]

hopefully someone has this solution..cause i am in the same boat as you...however it doesn't really bother me as it keeps helping me to remember my password when i am trying to connect to a shared folder/drive on my vista computer from XP

I have tried to fool around with the security setting in vista to drop that and to allow people who connect to it but still that pop up for username/password comes up....

hopefully someone can help you out...

maybe double check the permission side on the shared network drive and to make sure the user sheldon is within the list or even tried just "everyone"....

see if that make things a bit easier

[sheldondsouza]

Thank God I not alone here accessing shared folder does not bring up the dialog; I can share my whole C and D drive by creating new share and it works then fine. But dont want to do that. I want to be able to access hidden shares.

Turned on file,printer,media sharing and turned of pass protect in the network status on vista.

Will try your what you told me about (my name being in the list/everyone).

Hopefully a solution may come out; the only reason i could possibly think is its vista home premium and not ulitmate or business (which was desingned for networks)

[sheldondsouza]

Okay found the solution; UAC was the main cause

Here is a tutorial to solve it
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947232