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| Vista Ultimate x64 | Can't access shared files/folders Hi! I have Vista x64 Ultimate on my desktop and Vista x64 Home Premium on my wireless laptop. I’m trying to share files and folders. I believe I’ve done everything I needed to enable file sharing on both computers. All my Sharing and Discovery buttons are turned on except Password Protect Sharing. I added “Everyone” to my sharing list on both computers. Both computers have the same Workgroup name. My problem is that I don’t know how to access the shared files/folders from either computer. All the web sites I’ve visited tell me how to enable sharing but none of them tell me how to access them. It’s probably a simple process but I can’t figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated! P.S. If any of my files or folders have the same name on both computers would that be a problem? |
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| VISTA home prem 32bit SP2 --- XP Pro SP3 32bit | Re: Can't access shared files/folders Hello, Try these, Brink made these !!!!!!!!! Network Discovery - Turn On or Off File Sharing - Turn On or Off Network - View and Browse Computers or Devices Simple File Sharing - Enable Public Folder Sharing - Turn On or Off |
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| Vista Home Premium | Re: Can't access shared files/folders First Disable all the Firewalls on the computer and check.. it would be helpful if you could give the network setup |
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| Vista Ultimate x64 | Re: Can't access shared files/folders Thanks for the reply! After I posted the message I called MS. The nice tech took control of my computer. It took her about an hour but she got the file sharing working. She had to delete my Trend Micro Virsu Protection as it was somehow conflicting with my sharing. Afterwords I re-installed it and things are fine. Thanks again for your quick reply! |
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| VISTA home prem 32bit SP2 --- XP Pro SP3 32bit | Re: Can't access shared files/folders WOW.... what phone number did you call? |
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| Vista Ultimate x64 | Re: Can't access shared files/folders Hi gumba! I called 1-866-452-4755. Please note: You get 90 days of free technical support from the first day you call regardless of when you purchased Vista (Also applies to Office 2007 and probably all their other products). Hope that helps. |
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