weird sharing issue between XP machines

[ViviTheMage]

I have 3 machines on my LAN.

1 wireless, 2 wired.

I will call desktop 1 D1, it has Vista SP1 and connects to the shares on both D2, and D3 without an issue.

deskop 2 D2, it has windows XP PRO SP3. it can connect to the shares on D1, and D3.

Laptop 1 D3, has windows XP PRO SP3, it can connect to the shares on the D1 machine, but everytime it tries to connect to D2 it asks for a username/pw, which I type in with no luck.

all 3 machines have the same log in id and password, and are all on the WORKGROUP. D3 is wireless, the issue happens on both wired and wireless.

Any ideas....

 

[Thor86]

Turn off Simple Fire Sharing.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: Thor86
Turn off Simple Fire Sharing.

oh, it is.

 

[ViviTheMage]

another thing is, copying FROM my XP machine, to my VISTA machine is 70mb/s or so....but copying from VISTA to XP is 12-18MB...I have a gig network, with gig NICS in all....any ideas on that too?

 

[ViviTheMage]

bump?

 

[techmanc]

Did you try repairing the network connection on the problem computers? Maybe its a caching problem.

 

[ViviTheMage]

indeed i did.

 

[techmanc]

then according to your setup if all names/passwords/permissions are right ah this shouldn't be happening. I would go over the setting on the troubled connection maybe removing and and reapplying passwords/permissions.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Yeah, I actually re-applied all shares, and permissions.... bah! damn WORKGROUP!

 

[MadRat]

Vista is just plain crappy in copy&paste functionality through Windows Explorer. I find mapping the network drive as a different username than the one currently in use always seems to decrease the head aches in local network sharing and XP. For some reason it chokes on the same username/password, almost like it tries to find the account local first then tries to find that same UIN/username on the other machine which of course cannot exist. At least when they are on a domain you can use domain/username to assert an identity.

edit: You should be able to log into the other machine using %computername%/%username% format. Replace %computername% with the host machine's name. Your %username% is of course the name of the account you log in on. If you cannot figure out your user name or the machine name just go into cmd.exe and type:

echo %username% %computername%

 

[MadRat]

Did you ever figure out the problem?

 

[ViviTheMage]

No, I tried a few more things with no luck, bizarre...

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: MadRat
Vista is just plain crappy in copy&paste functionality through Windows Explorer. I find mapping the network drive as a different username than the one currently in use always seems to decrease the head aches in local network sharing and XP. For some reason it chokes on the same username/password, almost like it tries to find the account local first then tries to find that same UIN/username on the other machine which of course cannot exist. At least when they are on a domain you can use domain/username to assert an identity.

edit: You should be able to log into the other machine using %computername%/%username% format. Replace %computername% with the host machine's name. Your %username% is of course the name of the account you log in on. If you cannot figure out your user name or the machine name just go into cmd.exe and type:

echo %username% %computername%

just tried this again, not working...my xp laptop cannot get to my server, but my server can get to my laptop. I tried logging in as server/username, or laptop/username, case sens and not case sens...wtf, they are both XP SP3 w/ simple sharing off and the same username/pw!!!

 

[MadRat]

Can you verify that the server service is running on your target machine.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: MadRat
Can you verify that the server service is running on your target machine.

What is the service name?

 

[MadRat]

I believe it's called "server" of all things it could be.

I'm not at my XP machine right now. Typing on an iPod. Will try to look over the services list later for you.

edit: It may be that on the Vista machine you don't have the "Network Discovery" service running in the "ON" state. There is a "Custom" setting where you can fix it to see things one way and not vice versa.

Did you ever verify that all the machines are using the same "Workgroup" name?