I tried this in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, but no luck.
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On my Win 7 laptop, I designated D: to be shared.

The "Guest" ID is enabled.

The other ID has had it's password removed.

Under Control Panel | Network Sharing Center | Advanced sharing options
Home or Work has the following options set:
File and Printer Sharing = Turn on file and printer sharing
Public folder sharing = Turn on sharing so anyone with network
access can read and write files in the Public folders
Media Streaming = Media streaming is off
File sharing connections = Use 128-bit encryption...
Password protected sharing = Turn off password protected sharing
HomeGroup connections = Use user accounts and passwords to connect
to other computers

Public (current profile) has the same settings where the parms exist


When I to open that share from my XP box going through My Network
Places, it sees the share, but throws
"\\Vaio\D is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
this network resource...." "Access is denied"

When I try to get to it by mapping a network drive to "\\VAIO\D", XP
still isn't having any of it. I've tried just clicking "Finish" and
I've tried "Connect using a different user name".

I must be doing something dumb....

But what?

Googling, I see something about 120 vs 40-bit encryption in the
authentication, but it seems like XP should deal with 128 and I'm afraid
to just go klutzing around with stuff I don't know anything about.
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Pete Cresswell