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Connecting vista & xp in a peer 2 peer

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wagus - Jun 24, 2008 at 07:42 AM
caffeinedeath Posts 11 Registration date Wednesday October 29, 2008 Status Member Last seen February 3, 2009 - Feb 3, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Hello,
i have been able to connect both my vista laptop and my xp laptop together in a peer to peer way.i ip address is correct,i m able to ping the two machine correctly,i have shared a couple of document on both computers.i can access the shared document shared on the vista laptop on the winxp machine but i cann't access the shared document shared on the winxp through the vista machine.i'm able to see the winxp on the vista but when i double click it,it alwalys gives an error that windows cannot access it.please help me out so that i can access my shared documents through my vista laptop on my winxp laptop
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wizzy
Dec 18, 2008 at 06:46 PM
can you take me step by step my laptop is running on vista and my desktop on xp. I have the cable but i am failing to link the two together pliz help me
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Stephen
Jan 5, 2009 at 05:29 AM
HI,

I have a Vista laptop and an Xp desktop computer.
I haven't attempted to try and connect my two machines together, so before I do, Can someone please tell me how to do it.

Thanks!

Stephen.
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Guest
Oct 13, 2008 at 12:21 AM
Here is what to do to solve your problem

1) On your XP machine, create a network workgroup called "WORKGROUP"

2) On your XP machine create an account with the exact same name as the user account on your vista machine (MUST BE PASSWORD PROTECTED!) - Allows your Vista machine to see files on your XP machine

3) Create a user account on your Vista Machine with the same name as your XP user acount (MUST BE PASSWORD PROTECTED!) - allows your XP machine to look at your vista machine

Voila! XP and Vista have been networked :-)
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Andy
Dec 3, 2008 at 01:55 PM
That didn't work. XP machine with printer still says access denied to my Vista machine. Both have the same username and password.
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caffeinedeath Posts 11 Registration date Wednesday October 29, 2008 Status Member Last seen February 3, 2009 9
Oct 30, 2008 at 11:34 AM
check out the link here.you can share any file from vista to xp and vice versa.
http://techtricks.co.in/?p=63
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caffeinedeath Posts 11 Registration date Wednesday October 29, 2008 Status Member Last seen February 3, 2009 9
Feb 3, 2009 at 10:01 AM
stephen and wizzy
the above link at techtricks.co.in has step by step instructions.check if thats what you wanted.
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