Re: Vista pc cannot access vista laptop on wireless LAN and vice versa


Malke;949933 Wrote:
cruisemate wrote:


I have a Vista pc and a laptop on a wireless LAN with a D-link
router.
Both connect OK to the network (and to a wireless printer) and both
are
visible in the Network window of each other. I can view and open
files/folders on the Public and Users folders of each BUT I cannot
access either from the (myname) folder in each. I'm using the
Windows
firewall set to Private Network. Network and Sharing Centre is set
with
Network Discovery ON; File Sharing ON; Public Folder Sharing ON;
Printer
Sharing ON; Password Protected Sharing OFF; and Media Sharing ON.
I have set up File Sharing wherever I can (although I may have missed
somewhere). > >
(snippage)

Turn Password Protected Sharing ON and create matching user accounts
and
passwords. See below.

Create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. You do
not need
to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords
assigned to each user account can be different; the
accounts/passwords just
need to exist and match on all machines. DO NOT NEGLECT TO CREATE
PASSWORDS, EVEN IF ONLY SIMPLE ONES. If you wish a machine to boot
directly
to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for convenience,
you
can do this. The instructions at this link work for both XP and
Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
'Configure Windows XP to Automatically Login'
(http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm)

If one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center, turn off
Simple
File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab).

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
FAQ - 'index' (http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ)
This worked perfectly, many thanks Malke.

Mel.


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cruisemate
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