I tried it both ways and it made no difference.
I like the new sound effect when I get the critical error....not!

"Brian W" wrote:

> my spelling brain must off
>
> switch off password protected sharing in the Network and Sharing Center page
> "Brian W" <bex753@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:C67144EA-CEC3-4C68-A6EE-44F65313CB3E@microsoft.com...
> >I has to switch of passwords on the network on the Vista machine to get the
> >Xp machine to be seen by the vista machine
> >
> > MMM "Vista shiny"
> > "Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:F200140A-404F-4772-8D18-0484E10E0172@microsoft.com...
> >>I am at my wits end!!
> >> I cannot print from my 4 day old Laptop loaded with Vista Home Premium to
> >> the printer attached to my XP SP2 Machine. I could print from my
> >> previous XP
> >> SP2 laptop without problems. On both machines, all firewalls are off,
> >> all
> >> virus programs are off, all printers are shared, all files are shared,
> >> both
> >> computers are in the same workgroup, network discovery on, KB922120 is
> >> installed on the XP machine, TCP/IPv4 WINS NetBios is enabled over
> >> TCP/IP,
> >> network is private etc.......
> >> What is interesting is that I successfully mapped drives on both PC's and
> >> can fully share files in both directions between both computers. So for
> >> now
> >> I am printing Vista files that I can see from my XP.
> >> BUT, I can not browse (in explorer) the XP Computer network from the
> >> Vista
> >> machine (Permission error, contact administrator - Myself?)
> >> I have also tried to enter \\computername\printername\ which gives me
> >> (Error
> >> 0x0000000D) It looks like I am not alone in the issues in printing from
> >> Vista to XP but I haven't seen anyone who has had my problem while being
> >> able
> >> to actaully see files. Anyone out there know the fix before I return
> >> this PC
> >> to BestBuy and get the one with XP media Centre Edition for $100 less?
> >
>