I have a vista machine connected to our network with a few other XP machines. I've done network mapping before on XP but on Vista its behaving different. The network has user names and passwords for each machine for logging in. When I try to map the drives on the other machines Vista gives me the username and password menu but its not accepting my info. Is vista wanting the machine passwords for the computer Im connecting to or are those just network passwords?? I dont know which to do but its not liking any of my passwords so I need some advice if anyone has expertise on this. Thanks in advance!

Have you set up to share the folders you're trying to get to ?

Originally Posted by LadynRed

Have you set up to share the folders you're trying to get to ?

No I never got that far. I just wanted to see if it was possible in Vista. But I just realized I have Vista Home edition, which from what I read means its impossible to share networks like you could with XP Pro. Someone told me you would have to do some trickery in registry files within Vista and I know nothing about that so I dont think I can do it.

What you read must be wrong. My wife's laptop has Vista Home Basic and while it is a bit more work to accomplish networking on a Vista machine, it can be done.

Beats me! What do you mean by its a bit mroe work? The only thing different from XP was one menu. The network in the office has one server and 3 other machines. The server is win2000 and the other two PC's are XP Pro. My machine is a vista home HP machine. I openned the Computer folder and went thru the "Map a Network Drive" setup and when I put my username and passwords in it just errored. I still dont know what passwords it wants. Is it the network admin passwords, the machine login passwords for the specific machine or what? All the computers side from my vista pc have passwords setup. Im cluess!

I have a desktop running WinXP and a laptop running Vista Home Premium. I was able to share out a folder on my desktop and then access it from my laptop (via my wireless router). So it is possible. I had to make some changes in the firewall software on my laptop to make it work (NOT windows firewall either).

I'm with Diane on this one. I'm using a laptop with Vista Home Premium, and a desktop turned file server with XP Media Edition, which is Home on steroids. The XP machine has several drives attached, so I just share each of them, and access the files by unc. I also set the XP machine up to allow remote desktop sessions.

To make things easier, we'll call the desktop desktop. On the Vista laptop, I start Windows Explorer, and type \\desktop into the address bar. There's a list of all my shares.

That's the without security version, just to make it work. You don't really want to leave your data open to the world, though...