Can't connect Windows Vista Desktop to XP Laptop

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I just purchased Vista Home Premium HP Desktop. I have a Netgear Wireless
Router Hard Wired to Vista, and XP laptop is connected via wireless.

I am trying to share files between the two computers.

I am able to get out to the internet from both PCs.

1. I changed both computer workgroup names to Workgroup and download Link
Layer Topology for XP laptop.
2. I can see the Laptop Computer on View Full Map from Network and Sharing
Center on Vista, but I cannot connect and it is not listed when I click on
Network icon.
3. I can also see the Vista Computer from My Network Places on XP Laptop,
but when I click on the Computer Icon from View Workgroups it says "\\<name>
is not accessible. You might not have permissions to use this network
resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have
access permissions. The network path was not found."
4. I went into the Sharing properties and enabled sharing for Everyone. Now,
something interesting is that the "Share" button is grayed out and so I had
to do this by clicking on Advanced Sharing. Does that sound right?

One of the guides said to make sure I set up matching users and passwords on
both computers and connect that way. Another said leave it off.

I am stuck and this point. Need some next steps.

MD
 
Morgan - You seem to be going down the same path as me. Last step, I had to
go deep into McAfee and enable the range of home network IPs - they were
discovered but not checked on, then the Vista and XPs all started to see each
other and file share. If you have McAfee I can help more if you can't find
it in there.
 
I am having a similar problem. I have a vista laptop and an xp desktop. I
wanted to access files on xp from vista with password protection, and here's
what I've found out.

I have "simple file sharing" disabled in XP, and instead have a user that
matches the credentials on my vista box. I have all the users/groups settings
correct in "computer management" and I have all the sharing/security settings
correct for the folders I want to share. Correct in that the inheritance of
privileges is such that remote access is configured ONLY for a certain user
on my vista laptop. I have windows firewall running on both machines.

I had to do some wacky workaround to set Vista to be compatable with the
network authentication protocol used in XP. It had to do with modifying a
registry key so that vista used a different version of NTLM. I can't remember
exactly, but search the forums and you will find it. Search for NTLMv2

Turns out you cannot share files in said manner. There are two workarounds,
but neither permit one to eat and posses large amounts of cake simultaneously:

1. In XP on the folders you want to share, add the "everyone" group to list
of allowed users and give them the permissions you want. Make sure the NTFS
permission under the "security" tab are also configured for "everyone". This
is unacceptable, because you don't want everybody to have access to your
files.

2. In XP, you can disable windows firewall, and achieve the desired result.
Drawback with this is you need a firewall. Potential workaround is to use a
hardware firewall such as a router, but this can be a huge pain if you have
http, ftp, mysql, and various other servers running.

Dear Microsoft,
Judging by the forums, there are a lot of people who are having the same
problems. I read a KB article that stated, "when a vista pc with logon
credentials that are not part of the list of users specified in the
security/sharing settings of the XP shared folder it is trying to access,
the vista user will be prompted for username and password and permitted
access if credentials match one of the users in the XP folder permitted users
list." I was not able to provoke this behavior. I was never prompted for a
password on my vista machine even after I did the NTLM fix. You should
consider issuing a fix because XP is going to hang around for a long time,
and people who get vista are going to want to access their XP files securely
without having to use simple file sharing or giving "everybody" access.
 
It sounds to me like a third party fire wall software problem. On Nortons
Internet Security it's the intrusion prevention. It's seperate from the fire
wall, so even if you turn off firewall you still get the problem. You need
to go to the intrusion prevention settings. An in the trusted tab enter each
of the ip's for all of the pcs on your network.

If it's not Nortons or McAfee as tick stated, then post what software you
are using and someone maybe able to tell you where you need to look to get it
to allow access.

Linda
 
I have a similar problem. I have a Windows ME desktop with Norton Internet
Security 2005 and a new Gateway MX8711 laptop with Vista Home Premium and it
had a trial version of McAfee Internet Security installed. They connect
through a Linksys WRT54GS Router. I can connect to the Internet from both. I
can see the Vista Machine on the ME and vise versa. Neither can open the
others files. I get the following message on the Vista Machine: \\PCNAME is
not set up to establish a connection to port "File and printer sharing" with
this computer. Both machines have the same user name and no passwords. I
updated ME to use NTLM2. I was able to open ports 137-139, and 445 in
McAfee. I have added a range to the trusted IPs. In NIS2005 I have added the
IP range in the trusted IPs. How can I add trusted IPs to NIS 2005 Intrusion
detection? Any help to resolve this problem would be appreciated. Thanks in
advance.
 
Hi Cj9998,

I must admit over the years I've discovered it's better to have the same
firewall software on each of the pc's on a network. As all software
programmes do the same thing, but in a slightly differently way, so this can
on occasions cause some hassel.

I'm not sure if 2005 had the option to enter trusted ip's or not, though I
suspect not as 2006 didn't, so I down loaded there free upgrade to 2007
features. In 2007 i opened up settings for the fire wall/intrusion
prevention, and there is a tab for trusted.

I've just checked Norton Internet Security 2005 for you on their website to
see if there are any updates, and I'm sorry but it looks like you may need to
upgrade to the newer version.

Some one on here (I think it was Trick) did explain how to add trusted ip's
or turn on trusted ip's in McAfee. I'll have a quick scan through in a bit
and if I find it i'll post the topic link ok.

But in the mean time I would (if it was me) down load another copy of the
McAfee that you have on your new laptop, onto your desktop. By having the
same sofeware it will cut down on the conflicts between them.

Ok found it, here's what Trick did in McAfee:

4/6/2007 6:33 AM PST
By: Trick
In: microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing
Subject: RE: XP and Vista

Rod - Turning on XP first then Vista was my solution until I found that in
McAfee you can allow the ip range of addresses for the local network. Once I
did that, the sequence doesn't matter. Think Norton is the same deal.
Here's the McAfee path:

Right click on McAfee icon in system tray, open security center, internet &
network, configure, firewall protection, advanced, trusted & banned IPs, add
your home network range or click it on if it is there (it should be there,
mine was but it was not clicked on) or add each ip range/address you want to
allow.

T.
[\quote]

Hope it helps,
LInda
Click to expand...
 
You may need to give your (common) user accounts a password - I know some
stuff requires the account have a password, but don't remember exactly what.
Those of us who hang out in the Media Center newsgroup generally feel that
Norton is much more trouble than it's worth, and should be removed at
earliest opportunity...

Dana Cline - MCE MVP
 
Thanks Linda and Dana for your quick responses. Here is a weird one. I
disconnected the Internet, shut down Norton completely and disabled McAfee
Firewalls and still have the problem. Could file and printer sharing not be
configured properly on Vista hence the \\PCNAME is not set up to establish a
connection to port "File and printer sharing" with this computer message? I
will add passwords to the logins to check it out.

Cj9998
 
You did enable file sharing in Network and Sharing didn't You? If not open
Network from Start menu, then click on Network and Sharing in the Network
window.

Linda
 
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