accessing an XP Home computer

I have an XP Home PC on my LAN with a administrator level user and password.

On my Vista home PC I run this command at the command prompt:

net use G: \\xplaptop\c$ /user:xplaptop\theusername

Then press enter and prompted for password. I enter password for that user
and I get System error 86 has occurred. The specified network password is
not correct.

What am I doing wrong?

"Angus" <> wrote in message
news:%...
>I have an XP Home PC on my LAN with a administrator level user and
>password.
>
> On my Vista home PC I run this command at the command prompt:
>
> net use G: \\xplaptop\c$ /user:xplaptop\theusername
>
> Then press enter and prompted for password. I enter password for that
> user and I get System error 86 has occurred. The specified network
> password is not correct.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
>


Why not just browse to the XP machine in the Network Window? Why complicate
things?

"Angus" <> wrote in message
news:%...
>I have an XP Home PC on my LAN with a administrator level user and
>password.
>
> On my Vista home PC I run this command at the command prompt:
>
> net use G: \\xplaptop\c$ /user:xplaptop\theusername
>
> Then press enter and prompted for password. I enter password for that
> user and I get System error 86 has occurred. The specified network
> password is not correct.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
Vista by default does not allow you to access its administrative shares
across the network, it may also be preventing outbound access to admin
shares on your XP machines. Have you tried setting up a named share to
see if you can access it instead?

--
Zaphod

Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's something
big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the
universe gets that.