therock wrote:

> Gosh fella I know you are offering help but I thought this was a vista
> forum. All the XP stuff tosses me into a state of dyslexia.
> I have no doubt you can help me I hope you stick with me.

Gosh fella, you didn't say what operating systems you're running. It is
assumed that at least *one* of them is Vista since you're posting in a
Vista newsgroup, but "desktop x64 to my laptop x86" doesn't tell us much,
especially because in networking it doesn't matter about 64 or 32-bit.

> A. I only run Vista and only it's firewall and defender. No 3rd party
> anything. I do connect through a router hub a Trendnet Ndraft. No
> special settings there.
>
> B. I cannot find any of the settings you describe. I have only one
> workgroup and each computer has the same login name but different
> passwords. I cannot find this tab "This
> is done from the System applet in Control Panel, Computer Name tab."
> Are you talking XP here?

You need to read the information I gave you more carefully and with some
common sense. Obviously it is general information and obviously if you
don't have XP, that part won't be applicable to you. Again, read over
Section C. If you have the same name user account but different passwords,
THEY DON'T MATCH. And that is why you are asked to supply credentials.

The Workgroup is set in the same place in Vista as it is in XP. Or you can
type in "Workgroup" in Vista's Help & Support. However, you issues are
caused because you don't have the same user accounts/passwords on both
machines.

> What about me not being able to change my Read only status of the files
> and whay can I xfr from one pc to the other but not vise versa? and when
> it tells me I need permission where do I go to give it?

I already gave you the answer to that. If you had set up your user accounts
and passwords correctly, you would not be having these difficulties. Try
again.

Malke
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