akitosforever
Contributor
Hi All,
Im one step away from tearing my hair ....just then I thought i should be seeking sage advice here
I have a Vista Loaded laptop connecting wirlessly to the internet using Belkin router and XP loaded desktop which is hard wired to router.
I was able to access shared folders on XP machine sometime ago but had to format the XP machine(desktop) for some reason ....and after the format reinstall I have again shared a few folders on the desktop xp machine...but whenever i try to access them from the vista machine (laptop)....it gives a username and password prompt. However none of my machines have a user accnout password setup .
m nt sure if this is known issue but i have tried quite a few things.
Also im able to access files on laptop from desktop without any issues.
these are things i have tried so far.
1) tried every possible Username and password combination
2) setup a the same username and password on both machines and tried to use that for accessing
3) Disabled the password protected sharing on vista ( although that is relevant to accessing files on Vista )
Im using vista ultimate on laptop and xp sp2 on desktop.
Any suggestions and value add comments are welcome ....but hoping to get out of this.
Im one step away from tearing my hair ....just then I thought i should be seeking sage advice here
I have a Vista Loaded laptop connecting wirlessly to the internet using Belkin router and XP loaded desktop which is hard wired to router.
I was able to access shared folders on XP machine sometime ago but had to format the XP machine(desktop) for some reason ....and after the format reinstall I have again shared a few folders on the desktop xp machine...but whenever i try to access them from the vista machine (laptop)....it gives a username and password prompt. However none of my machines have a user accnout password setup .
m nt sure if this is known issue but i have tried quite a few things.
Also im able to access files on laptop from desktop without any issues.
these are things i have tried so far.
1) tried every possible Username and password combination
2) setup a the same username and password on both machines and tried to use that for accessing
3) Disabled the password protected sharing on vista ( although that is relevant to accessing files on Vista )
Im using vista ultimate on laptop and xp sp2 on desktop.
Any suggestions and value add comments are welcome ....but hoping to get out of this.