Windows Work Group Username and Password help

[speedy1]

I have 2 laptops joint to a work group, windows 7 and windows xp.

 

I can see both of the laptops in the work group and can access my windows 7 files from the xp laptop after I have entered the username and password in the dialog box.

 

When I try to access files from the windows xp laptop, using windows 7 laptop a dialog box appears asking for username and password. Im not sure what I have to enter in here.

 

I have typed in the admin user name and admin password set on the xp laptop but this does not work, any help would be appreciated.

[Cache]

might sound silly but have you tried XPMACHINENAME\adminusername and password on the windows 7 laptop (replacing with appropriate values)

 

Could be the Windows 7 laptop is trying to login using it's machine username.

[MrEprise]

I've found this to be the case that if logging in using only a username without the machine name prefixed, Windows XP often assumes that the account used must be one the remote PC whereas Vista & 7 both assume that the account must be on the local PC, not the remote one.

 

Hopefully that made sense.