Is your XP computer running Home Edition? If so, please see the following
blog post:

[url]http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/09/27/458871.aspx[/url]

Scroll to the bottom for info on XP Home Edition.

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"Jim" <Jim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:11D2CC8C-FC65-441C-B591-98AA49FDC3DE@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I was trying to use Vista's backup wizard to backup files on my Vista
>machine
> to another home networked machine running XP. I got an error message
> saying
> that I can't use the wizard to backup from Vista to XP. Is there a way
> around this? Yes, I have confirmed that I can file-share between the two
> machines - that's not the problem.[/color]