I have been trying all day to get this to work, and have been researching it on the web and found basically nothing. Vista has basically been released as a Beta version and some of the features do not yet work properly, including networking.
If you are experiencing the same problem as me, see if this helps. Both machines could ping each other, and see each other in Explorer, but could not access each other. A dialog came up saying that access was denied.
I have found that there is a semi-solution to the problem, and its one of those things that for XP users you'll kick yourself when you realise what an idiotic, simple thing to miss it is.
When you set a folder as shared on your XP machine, you HAVE to add 'Everyone' as a user in the sharing permissions! Doing this will solve the problem, however, it will only allow you to access the Vista machine from the XP machine, and not the other way round, as the Vista machine will still not access a shared folder unless it has explicitly been told it has permission to. This will however enable you to use the Easy Transfer feature, as you can use a shared folder on the Vista machine, which both PCs can see. If you do this, don't forget to set 'Everyone' as 'Co-Owner', otherwise the XP machine will not be able to write to the folder.
Hope this helps! :)
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