[tomwi11is]

I have an XP computer and a Vista computer. My XP computer sees my vista computer and lists it in My Network Places. My Vista computer also sees my XP computer, and it lists it in My Network Places. When I click on the XP computer when I want to send a file to it from the Vista machine, it says that it can not connect. However, when I do it the other way around using the XP machine, it works fine. Before anyone asks about firewalls, they are all off, in fact they are uninstalled. The only firewall that is present it the one in the router, which is turned on.

Any help ?

[techy689]

Another member had a similar issue. He found when he removed the passwords on the user accounts of the computers, it worked.

See if this is the same for you.

[Bob Cerelli]

Or for more security, at least have the same user accounts and passwords on each computer.

[DaveBurnett]

That is what I do Bob.

[Bob Cerelli]

That's great. Hopefully they will do that as well.

[pinksaxplayer]

Thanks! This solved my problem for my wireless XP machine not connecting to my Vista desktop via the network. Blank passwords didn't work, but once I matched the user names and password for both machines everything worked beautifully!

Thanks for a simple, elegant solution to this frustrating problem!!

[JohnWill]

The default for Vista is to inhibit networking without a password on the account, so removing the passwords was not the best idea. Thankfully, Bob had the right answer.