I unfortunately also have the Gateway GM5424. Its Vista Ultimate DOES have a
lot of "issues". I have this exact problem. Gateway support is useless (and
clueless). I have searched the Gateway Knowledge Base for this Registry
Change Solution to no avail. Could you post the solution here? or at least a
link to it? I (we) would really appreciate it.
"Nate Goulet" wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>
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