Not sure where you people have been on this subject, but I found the
answer in another newsgroup.
Apparently, Microsoft shipped Gateway GM5424 machines with a glitchy
version of Vista Ultimate Edition.
The fix calls for making a System Registry change. Some users
reported it solved the same problem for other machines.
The whole time I was thinking either I had something to learn about
Vista permissions, or that the Mcafee Security suite had something to
do with it. I tried disabling the Firewall, etc.
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:00:37 GMT,
askifyouwant@yahoo.com (Nate Goulet)
wrote:
>I'm trying to help someone with a small PC network that purchased a
>few new Gateway machines with Vista Ultimate Edition.
>
>They have a few Windows XP Professional machines, and now the Vista
>Ultimate Edition on the network.
>
>While the Vista machines can access the shared folder on the XP
>machine to read or modify existing files, they can not create a new
>file or folder. I looked at the sharing on the XP machine, and it
>didn't show much for options such as usernames or Everyone. Just had
>a checkmark next to share the folder.
>
>I setup the Vista machines to the same workgroup as the XP machines.
>
>When I attempt to create a file or folder on that shared drive, this
>error comes up:
>
>
>Copy Folder X
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>The \\Officemanager\test folder does not exist.
>The file may have been moved or deleted.
>
>Do you want to create it?
>
> test
>
> Yes NO
>
>If I perform the same task the XP machines, it works fine.
>
>Any ideas? Does Vista have some extra protection that I need to turn
>off?
>
>Could the Mcafee Internet suite that came with the pcs some how be
>causing this? I tried disabling the Firewall & Anti-virus, but still
>had the same trouble.
>
>I've seem software filewalls cause problems because, and i've ended up
>removing them to solve problems that disabling alone wouldn't.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions
>
>