"Bill Grant" <not.available@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I can share a file from the Vista machine to the C drive of my 98SE
>> machine (entire drive is shared) by just grabbing it and dropping it on
>> whatever folder I want it in using Explorer. But when I try to drop a
>> file from Vista on the Host machine, or another XP Pro machine running on
>> VMWare Workstation 5.5, I get that darn Destination Folder Access Denied
>> error. Why can I drop it on the 98SE machine but not the XP ones?
>>
> Probably because security is almost non-existent in W98!
>
> How is this all set up? Are they running in a workgroup? Have you tried
> looking for shares using a net view command? If you find a share using net
> view can you assign it using a net use command? This will let you insert a
> username and password in the command. Another test you could try. Can you see a file from Public on Vista in the
other OSs?