I'm almost glad it's broken, at least I know I wasn't missing something
obvious
"Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> It seems that sharing in Beta 2 is slightly broken apparently. Sorry 
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> "Shay" <none@given.com> wrote in message
> news:OF4y2MhjGHA.3588@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> On Zack's excellent Vista Knowledge Base under Sharing files and folders
>> in
>> Vista it says
>>
>> "You can type in users on another computer as well, so if Bob on
>> "laptop3"
>> wanted to access, you can type in LAPTOP3\Bob (so the computer name,
>> backslash then username). "
>>
>> I have tried this multiple times on multiple machines (currently have 3
>> Vista beta2 machines up in a wired workgroup). It so far hasn't worked
>> for
>> me, is there something I'm missing?
>>
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