Trying to backing up vista over a workgroup

I have a 2 computer home network.
I use the external drive attached to one XP system to backup data from both
machines.

Now one computer died and has been replaced with a Vista machine.

I'm trying to back it up to the XP machine external drive over the network.

I've set up permissions on the Vista machine to share the folders I want to
back up.

But when I try to navigate to them from the XP machine. I'm asked for a
username and password???

The 2 users accounts on the Vista machine are not password protected, so I
don't know what to do.

Any ideas??

"barry milliken" <barry.milliken@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:%233vQdLUWHHA.2212@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I have a 2 computer home network.
> I use the external drive attached to one XP system to backup data from
> both machines.
>
> Now one computer died and has been replaced with a Vista machine.
>
> I'm trying to back it up to the XP machine external drive over the
> network.
>
> I've set up permissions on the Vista machine to share the folders I want
> to back up.
>
> But when I try to navigate to them from the XP machine. I'm asked for a
> username and password???
>
> The 2 users accounts on the Vista machine are not password protected, so I
> don't know what to do.
>
> Any ideas??
>
>
>
>
Give the user account a name and password, then log on and provide the User
name and password.

Hope this helps

Innes

The response from "Innes" may work, but it is not really adequate. I have a
similar problem to Barry's, I'm trying to backup to a workgroup computer on a
home network where none of my accounts have passwords, and password protect
is disabled. For some reason backup still demands a password to access the
networked computer (and even the public folder on my own computer), though
there IS no password to give. I do not want to require passwords on my
accounts, so how do I get around this requirement? Or is this just a flaw in
Vista?

"Innes" wrote:

>
> "barry milliken" <barry.milliken@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:%233vQdLUWHHA.2212@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >I have a 2 computer home network.
> > I use the external drive attached to one XP system to backup data from
> > both machines.
> >
> > Now one computer died and has been replaced with a Vista machine.
> >
> > I'm trying to back it up to the XP machine external drive over the
> > network.
> >
> > I've set up permissions on the Vista machine to share the folders I want
> > to back up.
> >
> > But when I try to navigate to them from the XP machine. I'm asked for a
> > username and password???
> >
> > The 2 users accounts on the Vista machine are not password protected, so I
> > don't know what to do.
> >
> > Any ideas??
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Give the user account a name and password, then log on and provide the User
> name and password.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Innes
>

ScottJ wrote:

>The response from "Innes" may work, but it is not really adequate. I have a
>similar problem to Barry's, I'm trying to backup to a workgroup computer on a
>home network where none of my accounts have passwords, and password protect
>is disabled. For some reason backup still demands a password to access the
>networked computer (and even the public folder on my own computer), though
>there IS no password to give. I do not want to require passwords on my
>accounts, so how do I get around this requirement? Or is this just a flaw in
>Vista?
>
I use TrueImage, but it has a similar requirement. The fix is
easy - just create a user named, for instance, "Backup", and
allocate a password. Do the same on the second machine. You
then have something to input, but no need for a password on your
own account.

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK
chris@cdixon.me.uk

Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

I'm still not finding a solution to the request for username and password
when specifying a drive location ( \\computer\e ) on a workgroup computer
running XP Pro. I've tried shutting down the firewall, norton and setting up
a username with password on both systems with admin rights.

I am able to map and fully access the drive in other ways. I don't want to
buy or download another backup utility - is there no hope? :-)

If this is answered elsewhere, I apologize, but have been searching and
didn't see it.

"Chris J Dixon" wrote:

> ScottJ wrote:
>
> >The response from "Innes" may work, but it is not really adequate. I have a
> >similar problem to Barry's, I'm trying to backup to a workgroup computer on a
> >home network where none of my accounts have passwords, and password protect
> >is disabled. For some reason backup still demands a password to access the
> >networked computer (and even the public folder on my own computer), though
> >there IS no password to give. I do not want to require passwords on my
> >accounts, so how do I get around this requirement? Or is this just a flaw in
> >Vista?
> >
> I use TrueImage, but it has a similar requirement. The fix is
> easy - just create a user named, for instance, "Backup", and
> allocate a password. Do the same on the second machine. You
> then have something to input, but no need for a password on your
> own account.
>
> Chris
> --
> Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK
> chris@cdixon.me.uk
>
> Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.
>