Comments on: How To Share a Folder the XP Way in Windows Vista

By: Nato

Nato — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:02:34 +0000

It’s not just that, two different antiviruses and no antivirus have been in my computer and with neither of the 3 options have i been able to access the XP files it’s not about sharing in vista but in XP that vista just can’t access the XP folders that is what we need to fix but still haven’t found the way.

By: fred

fred — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:47:45 +0000

i have been trying to share a folder using vista business edition and it not same as the vista we all know.i need help on how to share a folder on vista business edition

By: Theo

Theo — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:50:41 +0000

Okay I have been trying to resolve a share on my home network for some time and was totally frustrated, but following your guide was so simple and all is well. I can access my Vista share directories without going through the public folders.

Thank you so much, I use your site for most of my answers and find it very explainatory and simple to follow. i am no geek but your a bomb.

Theo

By: redux

redux — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:21:53 +0000

PASSWORD PROTECTED SHARING MUST BE DISABLED FOR THIS TO WORK

START > CONTROL PANEL > NETWORK AND SHARING CENTER
TURN OFF PASSWORD PROTECTED SHARING.

Password protected sharing means you’re REQUIRED to use a password to get into shared folders. If you didn’t create a password, you can’t provide a password, and vista won’t let you authenticate with a blank password.

There’s also a way to change 1 value in the REGISTRY that completely disables all VISTA sharing features & makes the computer share exactly like XP, but I can’t remember how.

By: zen

zen — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:09:23 +0000

i have pc with the xp-os and laptop with the vista. The problem is, i want to share my file or picture into my laptop but i couldnt see at all. Thats suck… So, anyone can help… I do everything with the same workgroup, turn off the password and turn on the public folder… dont know what to do… Im tired of this…

By: Grenadeh

Grenadeh — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:49:28 +0000

While I’m not sure why it wasn’t self-explanatory to any person using Windows how to do this, I will admit people like me are probably part of the problem at Microsoft, because we don’t conceive of this requiring any explanation or technical support. Unfortunately at a random time about once a year my Vista decides to pull this horse crap and refuse access to my XP desktop, despite everything having been set up properly on repeated occasions, over and over again. Everything is shared right, my XP computer can access every drive on my network from all three Vista machines, and two Xboxes, and my Vista machines can access everything on my XP computer. I just put in another hard drive on my main Vista computer though and set up everything properly and now lo and behold, my XP machine can’t access it, but can access everything else on the machine. Frankly I’m a big supporter of Vista and Seven and this really isn’t a Vista problem, it’s a Microsoft not doing their job and catering to the fact that XP is terrible problem. Any advice? Pertinent to the problem, not “stop using vista”.

By: John

John — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:07:54 +0000

You’re welcome Nick. SP2 update for Vista improves network performance too,

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:10:17 +0000

I know I’m a couple years late, but THANK YOU JOHN! (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto.....ment-39045)
I can FINALLY share Vista -> XP!

By: visitakindasucks

visitakindasucks — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:44:12 +0000

u know wut?? i figured one thing, only reason why the people that are able to share the files are successful, or the ones that are unable to share the files are unsuccessful, is one, THE FIREWALL!! my kaspersky firewall was up and for months i was always hitting the wall till i found this forum, so where i just read the word firewall and i jumped out of my skin, yeeaaaa the issue is the firewall, just turn it off every time u want to share stuff between an XP desktop and a vista laptop, and there, ur set to go, thank to the builders of such forums,they always make us know that we r not alone, so now get to work, I need to look for another forum on how to make great movies with windows movie maker, our my girl friend and I are about to celebrate one year, I want to surprise her with a movie bout her lol see y’all..
im out
rod

By: Gunawan

Gunawan — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:49:21 +0000

Thank You, Andrew H…….
It works… Now, i can shared form Vista to XP…