Question : file sharing vista business accessing xp pro

Hi all,

we have set up a xp pro machine to act as a file sharing server. now around 5 machines access will access arious shares on the server.

one particular vista business machines is causing problems. it was working but when we came in this morning and tried to access a share we get the message

the network folder specified is currently mapped using a different username and password. to connect using a different user name and password, first disconnect any existing mappings to the network share.

now i've removed all from my computer and restarted the machine but i still get this error when trying to connect to the server.

any ideas?

Answer : file sharing vista business accessing xp pro

Given the additional information, look closely and firewalls and antivirus. You could disable these temporarily and see if that helps. Also (I know this to be an obvious point), have you tried pinging the share?  Again, given your feedback, try:
NET USE DRIVE: \\wpipaddress\share and answer the prompts
There may be an issue affect names.

Just by the way, I follow myself the advice we have been discussing and I connect my Vista Business 64-bit laptop to my XP Pro (SP3) Desktop all the time.

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