Systems: Vista Compaq Presario C500 Celeron(R) M (1.6ghz) 520 MB Ram Vista Ultimate Using onboard Broadcom 802.1 b/g XP Compaq Presario AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (2.4ghz) 960 MB Ram XP Media Center Edition (SP2) Onboard NVIDIA nForce Network Card Network Layout ISP: Comcast(formerly Time Warner) Router/AccessPoint/Switch: WRT54GX2 XP machine is wired into router Vista is wireless on router. The rundown of what ive done so far: Identical accounts on both machines File and printer sharing on both Installed The Link-layer Topology Discovery Responder (on the xp machine) Same Subnet and IP's are close to each other Netbios Over TCP/IP Shared a folder from each machine. I can ping each other by name and address from both machines ____________________________________________ From the xp desktop I can see the vista shares, I can manipulate files(put and get) From the vista machine I can see the xp box is there on the network map but I can't see the shares. Tried even start-run-\\xpmachine\sharename nothing Map network drive- "\\xpmachine\sharename" nothing ____________________________________ I've went through forums on my router, I contacted linksys, I read the MSKB entries about the file sharing and discovery, and many more... I still cant get the vista "lame-top" to access my share on my pc. HELP!

I can see it but nothing!

Are you running a firewall on the XP machine ?

the vista computer , in its network properties, advanced, you need to find and load 'everyone' for starters

no firewalls... mountain where do you mean for me to find this advanced tab for network at? alkaline