Networking my Vista Desktop to XP computers

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I have a home network set up using workgroups, with two printers attached to
my desktop running Beta 2 version of Vista. I just upgraded Vista to RC1 and
now none of my XP machines on the workgroup can access the printers on the
Vista RC1 machine. When I re-establish the workgroups, I get an error on the
XP machines that the workgroups are not accessable and that I need to contact
the Server Admin for the right priviledges. I have made sure that the
network on the Vista RC1 machine is the same workgroup, I made it
private....what am I doing wrong?

From the Vista Machine I can see my XP machines in the Network window, but
when I click on them, I get a message that I cannot access the machines?

I have been working on this for 5 hours...

Any help would be great!
 
I assume that you have checked your network settings to allow Network
discovery, File share, and Printer sharing. On my home network I also set
Password protected sharing to Off.

If you have installed Windows One Care, you will have to configure the
firewall to allow sharing.
 
I am running RC1 build 5600 and trying to connect to my xp system with my
epson r340 connected to it and i can't even connect to my printer much less
print anything. I have reported this and hope someone gets to work pn it as
this is a MAJOR bug and SHOULD NOT still be affecting us at such a late stage
in dev.
 
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