Vista Tutorial - File sharing with Vista and XP

This may be a question for the XP board but I thought I'd throw it here in
case someone knows the answer...

My home network has 3 PC's, 1 running Win98 (yes, Win98), 1 machine running
WinXP Home and the third running Vista Home Premium. I want to be able to
share files from my XP machine to my Vista machine. When I browse to the
shared folders I can see them but when I attempt to open them, it says access
denied. I can see and access the files fine from my Win98 machine (and i;ve
tried a friend's XP laptop which works fine) but Vista won't open the shared
folders. I have had success, however, in opening files that are in XP's
"Shared Music" and "Shared Picures" folders that have the same file sharing
permissions... this isn't making sense to me.

Anyone else have this problem ?

Chris wrote:
> This may be a question for the XP board but I thought I'd throw it here in
> case someone knows the answer...
>
> My home network has 3 PC's, 1 running Win98 (yes, Win98), 1 machine running
> WinXP Home and the third running Vista Home Premium. I want to be able to
> share files from my XP machine to my Vista machine. When I browse to the
> shared folders I can see them but when I attempt to open them, it says access
> denied. I can see and access the files fine from my Win98 machine (and i;ve
> tried a friend's XP laptop which works fine) but Vista won't open the shared
> folders. I have had success, however, in opening files that are in XP's
> "Shared Music" and "Shared Picures" folders that have the same file sharing
> permissions... this isn't making sense to me.

The "access denied" error on the XP box probably has something to do
with this:

*****
If one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center:

a. If you need Pro's ability to set fine-grained permissions, turn off
Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab) and create identical user
accounts/passwords on all computers.

b. If you don't care about using Pro's advanced features, leave the
Simple File Sharing enabled.

Simple File Sharing means that Guest (network) is enabled. This means
that anyone without a user account on the target system can use its
resources. This is a security hole but only you can decide if it matters
in your situation.

Then create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users'
home directories (My Documents) or Program Files, but you can share
folders inside those directories. A better choice is to simply use the
Shared Documents folder.
*****

The easiest way to get around this is to simply create identical user
accounts/passwords on the XP and Vista boxen. Then if you want to login
automatically to one particular account for convenience, follow these
directions:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Thank you ... its working now

"Malke" wrote:

> Chris wrote:
> > This may be a question for the XP board but I thought I'd throw it here in
> > case someone knows the answer...
> >
> > My home network has 3 PC's, 1 running Win98 (yes, Win98), 1 machine running
> > WinXP Home and the third running Vista Home Premium. I want to be able to
> > share files from my XP machine to my Vista machine. When I browse to the
> > shared folders I can see them but when I attempt to open them, it says access
> > denied. I can see and access the files fine from my Win98 machine (and i;ve
> > tried a friend's XP laptop which works fine) but Vista won't open the shared
> > folders. I have had success, however, in opening files that are in XP's
> > "Shared Music" and "Shared Picures" folders that have the same file sharing
> > permissions... this isn't making sense to me.
>
> The "access denied" error on the XP box probably has something to do
> with this:
>
> *****
> If one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center:
>
> a. If you need Pro's ability to set fine-grained permissions, turn off
> Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab) and create identical user
> accounts/passwords on all computers.
>
> b. If you don't care about using Pro's advanced features, leave the
> Simple File Sharing enabled.
>
> Simple File Sharing means that Guest (network) is enabled. This means
> that anyone without a user account on the target system can use its
> resources. This is a security hole but only you can decide if it matters
> in your situation.
>
> Then create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users'
> home directories (My Documents) or Program Files, but you can share
> folders inside those directories. A better choice is to simply use the
> Shared Documents folder.
> *****
>
> The easiest way to get around this is to simply create identical user
> accounts/passwords on the XP and Vista boxen. Then if you want to login
> automatically to one particular account for convenience, follow these
> directions:
>
> Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

Chris wrote:
> Thank you ... its working now

Excellent! Thanks for taking the time to post back.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User