By "user account" he indeed means "user account"...
I have had a similar experience to Stephen Wolstenholme in this thread,
and have solved it by making sure that on each machine there is an
account with the same name and with the same non-null password.
However, relic replied to Stephen Wolstenholme's post with a different
experience, just to make things confusing.
On 2/17/10, Earl Partridge posted:
> By User Account, I assume you do not mean "workgroup" name?
> Both machines are in the same workgroup, and the XP machine shares 2 printers
> that the Win7 machine can print to.
> As for User Account, I am the only user and I am "Earl" on both machines...
> no password
> required.
> Earl
> "Conor" <conor@gmx.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:MPG.25e5e782a3b09472989cf3@news.eternal-september.org...
>> In article <TeJen.41780$3W2.21017@newsfe14.iad>, Earl Partridge says...
>>>
>>> In my local network, The Windows XP machine is sharing a folder.
>>> The Windows 7 machine sees the folder but cannot open it.
>>> Error, "You do not have permissions..."
>>>
>>> I've read some stuff about Homegroup, but that seems to apply only to Win
>>> 7
>>> machines.
>>>
>> Create a user account on the XP machine that has the same
>> username/password as the account on the Win7 box.
>>
>>
>> -- Conor
>>
>> I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
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