Cannot share between Vista and XP

[maniak29]

My friend and I have been trying for hours to get file sharing to work between my XP machine and my Vista machine, with no luck.

We have disabled all firewalls, created identical accounts on each, made sure they were set to the same network name, tried with and without passwords, made sure more than once that file sharing is on, set permissions for "everyone" in individual folders that I want to share... all to almost no avail.

The XP machine can see the Vista machine, but says that access is denied.

The vista machine can see the XP machine, but only sees it as a media center. As in when I try to open it, it opens windows media player.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated if anyone has any ideas.

[johnwill]

First off, can you ping each way by computer name?



Let's see this for each of the computers.

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt:

In the command prompt window that opens, type type the following commands, one at a time, followed by the Enter key:

Note that there is a space before the -n or the /ALL, but there is NOT a space after the - or / in the following commands.

NBTSTAT -n

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter to copy the contents to the clipboard.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.

[maniak29]

--To add on a bit, I will say that my mother's machine shows up fine. I can see that but I have yet to enable sharing on her machine. Also, the XP machine has net access as well, but just no sharing.

Here's what you asked for:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Cory>NBTSTAT -n

Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.0.100] Scope Id: []

NetBIOS Local Name Table

Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
TEMPLAR <00> UNIQUE Registered
HOMELAN <00> GROUP Registered
TEMPLAR <20> UNIQUE Registered
HOMELAN <1E> GROUP Registered
HOMELAN <1D> UNIQUE Registered
..__MSBROWSE__.<01> GROUP Registered

C:\Users\Cory>IPCONFIG /ALL

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Templar
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : rochester.rr.com

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : rochester.rr.com
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ether
net Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1C-25-31-ED-01
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::89f5:a679:19a3:6c4f%8(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.100(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, January 02, 2009 2:17:34 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, January 09, 2009 2:17:32 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 24.92.226.40
24.92.226.41
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-54-55-4E-01
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : rochester.rr.com
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.rochester.rr.com
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 10:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 6TO4 Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

C:\Users\Cory>

[johnwill]

I need the same display for both machines.