Vista - The Famous "Access Denied" in Vista.

Hello all.

I have a networking issue with my home network; I have two Vista HP laptops (both Home Prem.) and I am attempting to connect both of them to the network together through wireless router.

From as far as I can tell, they are completely connected for both of them can see each other under the network (Auroraborialis) and both are under the same workgroup (AURA), and one laptop (we'll deem it LAPTOP1 for discussion) can access the other (LAPTOP2), yet vise versa is not so successful (i.e. LAPTOP2 cannot access LAPTOP 1).

It returns with the ever-so-famous '0x80070005: Access is denied'. When attempted to diagnose, it returns with 'Windows did not find any problems with this computer's network connection' and it gives the option to send the issue to Microsoft. I have checked every setting that I could (both have completely identical settings, i.e. network discovery, file sharing and public folder sharing is all turned on) and all should be correct. Our only goal is to access each other's public folders and simply pass files and such back and forth across the network, which I'm assuming should be decently seemless for Vista to do.

Both computers' login aliases have no passwords (didn't really want to deal with them) and I've read that's affected Vista/XP network share compatability, but I wouldn't think it would affect Vista/Vista network share. I've searched the forums and the Microsoft Support sites for any clues, but couldn't find any at all. Is there anything I'm simply overlooking or a setting that's slightly misplaced? Any offers of suggestions would be highly appricated!

Are the firewalls on both machines allowing the share ?

Don't have much of a clue but that's one thought that came to mind

Believe it or not, yes - that is, if you're talking about under the exceptions in Windows Firewall; both are allowing for File and Printer Sharing. Also, if it's any use, there is no other firewall available on the machines - all that's being used for Antivirus is AVG Free; we like playing it dangerous, I guess.

But other than that, with all settings completely and utterly identical, LAPTOP 1 may enter into LAPTOP 2's Public folder, but not vise versa still. I'm completely and utterly stumped, and I'm not really thrilled about calling M$'s $59.00 support line just to share Public Folders.

I've done some more deepsea fishing for any information for this unusual and seemingly simple mishap, but as of yet, no use. I HAVE, though, pinged both IP addresses and found that both hold a solid connection; so it's not so much a connectivity issue as it is just an Error=5 problem. I'm up for anything!

Thanks all for your help!

I've just had a quick look throught the Tutorials here and found this, have a look and see if anything here helps you.

Network - View and Browse Computers or Devices[11]=Networking Internet

So I am assuming a logical solution to this problem (after looking at the provide tutorial; thank you very much, btw!) is that I should create a user name and password on my laptop for her to be able to log in, correct?

That still leaves the curious answer to why the ease-of-network-access is a oneway street... why does LAPTOP1 have full accessability of LAPTOP2, yet not vise versa?

Regardless, I'm going to try this and see if it makes any slight difference at all. I'll post a followup afterwards.

Could be NTFS permissions, which gave me a tough time until I was pointed to the 'Take Ownership' tutorial around here.

Here is the link: Take Ownership of file