Sharing Files Between Home Vista and Home Windows XP?

[samueltilden@gmail.com]

I just bought a new Windows Vista Home Edition, and we already have a
Windows Home WIndows XP.

Both are on the same Linksys router, the old Windows XP's IP address
is 192.168.1.100 and the new Vista's is 192.168.1.102

I can ping the old Windows XP (at ...100) from the new Windows Vista
(...102), but not vice versa.

They both belong to the workgroup "WORKGROUP".

All I want to do is share files between these two home computers on
the same LAN. The Windows XP cannot find the Windows Vista computer
through Windows Explorer, but Windows Vista at least asks for a login
and password when I try to view files on Windows XP via \
\192.168.1.100\c$

Further, when I enable the Guest account on Windows XP, Windows Vista
says it cannot even find the Windows XP computer at all.

To summarize:

How do I share files between two home computers, one is Windows XP,
the other Windows Vista?

Thanks.

 

[Charlie]

Re: Sharing Files Between Home Vista and Home Windows XP?

I suggest you check microsoft.public.windows.vista.general and look around.
Lots of people are having the same problem. You will find your solution
there.
<samueltilden@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:8032a65e-adf4-47a3-bfb4-3c3d2ff09be0@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>I just bought a new Windows Vista Home Edition, and we already have a
> Windows Home WIndows XP.
>
> Both are on the same Linksys router, the old Windows XP's IP address
> is 192.168.1.100 and the new Vista's is 192.168.1.102
>
> I can ping the old Windows XP (at ...100) from the new Windows Vista
> (...102), but not vice versa.
>
> They both belong to the workgroup "WORKGROUP".
>
> All I want to do is share files between these two home computers on
> the same LAN. The Windows XP cannot find the Windows Vista computer
> through Windows Explorer, but Windows Vista at least asks for a login
> and password when I try to view files on Windows XP via \
> \192.168.1.100\c$
>
> Further, when I enable the Guest account on Windows XP, Windows Vista
> says it cannot even find the Windows XP computer at all.
>
> To summarize:
>
> How do I share files between two home computers, one is Windows XP,
> the other Windows Vista?
>
> Thanks.