3. I missed that you were trying to access the shares from the start
menu in Vista (or from run in Vista). Can you try this on the Vista
box.
right click nextwork on the Start menu
select Explore - do you see the other computers?
- if yes, when you double click one of them do you see the shares
- if no, along the top there are listings for Name, Category,
Workgroup, etc. Workgroup is a drop down. Are your other computers
in a different workgroup? Can you select it? Can you access shares?
4. mostly coverd in 3 above
5. anything in event viewer on the Vista machine mention master
browser election failure?
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:39:00 -0800, pcbiker
<pcbiker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>3. I still haven't figure out how to access any of the shaed folders on the
>XP Pro/LLTP machine. When I double-click on the machine of the nework map,
>nothing happens. When I type in "//machine name/foldername" on the Run box,
>I get "folder inaccessable" error message.
>
>4. I haven't found any way in Vista to see, or access, the other 4 XP
>machines at all. How should I do this? Or, stated differently, what I am
>not seeing on Vista that I should see?
>
>5. The Linux file server runs Samba, and is designated as the workgroup
>browse master. I did this because the server runs 24/7, and so my family
>will never have to wait for a workgroup master-browser election. And it
>works properly with the XP machines. Would this be making a difference to
>Vista?
>
>From an XP user's viewpoint, the problem with Vista is that there is no
>"Network Neighborhood" icon or "Network" icon within Windows Explorer. So to
>the user, there is no obvious place where one can go to see any
>representation of the other workgroup computers.
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Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
Expert Zone & Vista Community Columnist
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