Access denied when trying to connect external to vista

Hi,

I just installed Windows Vista and working it all out atm, but one issue i have is when i connect my external hard drive, i get access denied when trying to access it

i can see it there as a drive but cannot get in

i checked the security settings and sharing and all that but nothing seems to work.

Any suggestions?


Also, ill be posting this in the xbox forum but thought i try here first, when tryinig to connect to my windows vista pc through the network share from XBMC (XBOX Media Centre), i can see the shared directories, but i keep getting prompted for username and password.

ive had a look at a few settings on vista such as disabling the user login and clearing the password for my user profile on vista

actually, this happens when i try and connect from my xp machine aswell.

i can connect to my xp machine from vista, but i cant connect to my vista machine from xp

im sure these are simple problems but i really dont have time to muck around so any help would be much apreciated.

thanks in advance.

 

sorry didnt see the vista thread.

if needed, move this to that thread too.

sorry guys