XP cant access Vista Drives???

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That worked for me. Thanks!

hydro1956 said:
Having sharing allowed and all the other required share/network settings
correct in Vista and XP machines I could not access Vista shared
foldews/printers from XP machines, however vice-versa I could. Now, after
three days I found the solution:

My Visata machine came with McAfee antivirus preloaded. Both the Windows and
McAfee firewalls were on. As soon as I disabled the McAfee firewall the
network sharing worked as intended!

Doing a little follow-up research, I then turned off Windows firewall and
re-enabled the McAfee firewall, as well as changed the security level setting
in McAfee. At this point I was back to the "no-access" problem so I disabled
McAfee firewall and re-enabled Windows firewall. The network worked like a
carm once again. Now I assume there is an exception check box like "Allow
network folder/pinter sharing" in McAfee's firewall like there is in windows
firewall if you are wanting to use McAfee's firewall instead. Also, this may
be the same issue if you have some other another firewall enabled.
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Thank you!

After a week, 6 OS reinstalations (on more than one machine) 503,241
different firewall configurations, a minor stroke and a pending divorce, you
(and not the genii at MS have solved my problem.

MS better get this straight as, most people (at least that I know and I'm
not in IT) have a home network. What a bunch of idiots to not have tested
this stuff? What's the first thing you do when u bring in a new PC to your
home? For me it is network with my notebook/kids PC/PC attached to Plasma
(that's the old one that serves as a media PC). But no.....

I think that MS should comp you (and me) with a free upgrade to the highest
Vista available for all our PCs and ask us to be beta testers!! This is the
least they can do to cover the time we have spent to MAKE THEIR PRODUCT
BETTER!!!


Thanks a million.

Andrew
 
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