Re: Help with home network needed

[A J Hawke <ajh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:00:18 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

> On 16/06/2008 in message <cLv5k.91073$X6.77154@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> SS wrote:
> 
>>yep its the same both ways, both workgroups are the same name and theres
>>no password on it i dont think
> 
> The "standard" rule with NT and its variants is "no password, no
> connection" so try it with the same password on each box.
> 
> There is a way round it using simple file sharing I think, but I've not
> used it and I *think* it involves dragging files into a common shared
> folder.

I've got a number of XP machines (home/pro) that talk and share with 
different user ID's and passwords (just with 'sharing' enabled). The 
fussy one was SAMBA which wanted the username and password to be the same 
to allow XP into it (the other way round Windows did not give a damb 
about ironically). Perhaps Vista is behaving this way - I can't say as I 
don't own it.