Network share problems..

Is there some secret trick everyone does to enable sharing in vista?

In earlier ms os's - once you went under sharing - and said share C full - it was shared.

So long as your workgroup was named correctly - you could go to any machine and type \machine-name\c* and it would work.

With Vista on 3 machines and 2 laptops - sharing is hit and miss.

For one it asks for a password. I do not want a password on any of my machines - but to apise the sharing gods - i added one.* Now i can get to my old machine from this new one - but not the other way around (even though i added a password to all of them.)

Does adding a "Machine description" cause this?* is there some obvious trick you all do - that is undocumented but works?

My brother emailed me with the same problem


5 machines - all drives shared full.* all on workgroup "Workgroup"
All with passwords... Some work - some dont.

*Ive posted about this before - but i never did fix it / figure it out

?

ps - the only machine that shares everywhere is sever 2003 machine .. go figure