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Old 07-10-2007   #2 (permalink)
Chuck [MVP]


 
 

Re: Vista Business And XP Pro file and directory sharing issues

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:44:01 -0700, DonR <DonR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Environment
>Windows XP Pro Peer to Peer server with easy file sharing
>Multiple (3) XP Pro Clients
>Multiple Vista (2) Business Clients
>
>There are no problems with win XP pro clients and the Win XP Pro peer to
>peer server.
>
>The windows vista business clients can save a file from word 2007, excel
>2007, vista's notepad, or vista's wordpad to their respective XP Pro server
>user diretory.
>
>The following error occurs - In vista's windows explorer if you try to
>create a file, rename an existing file, or rename an existing directory.
>"\\WinXPProPeertoPeerServer\user\My Doucments\folder does not exist. The
>file may have been moved or deleted." " Do you want to creat it?"
>
>Don Raymond


Don,

The "... \user\My Doucments\ ..." folder tree is user personal. Are you
authenticating to the server as Guest, or with a specific non-Guest account?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Guest>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...-xp.html#Guest

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