Sharing between Vista and XP

[ikka]

It may not be AVG, more likely it is a tighter security setting on Vista.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I don't have any suggestions as I can't even get sharing to work among XP PCs I own.

Could you perhaps post the steps to find this "setting in AVG to ensure file sharing works correctly"? I'd like to give that a shot.

[DYngbld]

Good luck. I have vista on two machines, and xp on three, I have yet to get them to all play nice. I just gave up on it, and use removable media to share files.

[pctech]

That does not sound good. There has to be some way to getting these things to play nice, I just gotta figure out how to do. Thanks for your input.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Maybe you need an old computer running Linux and samba to manage the interface to the outside world...and your network.

[bubbacluck]

Our firewall is Zone Alarm. All the IP addresses must be in a trusted zone. You may be able to configure this through your router, also.

[Stentor]

I found out that people are starting to endorse Avast over AVG

Works great.Hope you don't mind a deep voice telling you that "virus database has been updated at 3:00 AM.

[JSteff]

Do you use passwords for logon? If so go to advanced sharing create the share from there in the same window
you have a option for permissions, in there you are able to set the permissions for everyone or add a specific user.

[pctech]

I turned off the password protection in Vista.

[thoolou]

Not sure about the Vista/AVG thing, but I can heartily endorse Avast! Been using it for about five years, and have *never* had a problem. Looking at getting the Enterprise edition for the office network. :)

FWIW, I have read a few things about AVG 8 being a bit “twitchy”. Can you go back to 7.x?

[Arizona Carolyn]

Good luck. I can’t even get one of my programs that works on XP work on my computer that is XP Pro..

[listenhillary]

Works great.Hope you don't mind a deep voice telling you that "virus database has been updated at 3:00 AM.

Turn off the sounds. There's a setting to turn it off.

[pctech]

I don’t think 7.X is supported now, though I am going to research it. I’m leaning towards Avast though, as I’m getting tired of fighting this battle.

[JSteff]

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/e20e6875-7210-47bb-bf19-5c60e6ae86151033.mspx

File sharing essentials

[waynesa98]

Sharing is possible between vista and xp. First remember that both have firewalls. Find your intranet ip address it will be something like 192.xxx.xxx.xxx, for all the computers on your net work and any router you might have. Depending on the firewall (windows or norton for instance) you will need to make the router, if you have one, a trusted network. You will need to make the computers trusted as well, and then set the specific folders/drives on both machines to be shared.

[JSteff]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx

Configuring File and Printer Sharing Behavior in Windows Vista

[MahatmaGandu]

I will pray for you.

[raybbr]

Tech ping

[McGruff]

You beat me to the file sharing page. It maybe as simple as this

"The default workgroup name in Windows Vista has been changed to WORKGROUP. In Windows® XP Home Edition, the default workgroup name is MSHOME."

I'm running Vista and the other 2 running XP and seem to remember having this problem.