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Old 10-12-2008   #1 (permalink)
Daniel
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Newbie : questions on file sharing

(sorry : I also posted this message on
microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing)

Hi everybody

I have a smal soho network consisting of a netgear router, a brand new PC
equipped with Vista Ultimate (let's call it Vista PC), and another PC using
XP SP 3 (XP PC).
The mapping of the network is OK.

after struggling a bit and thanks to the help of great people on such
newsgroup, my network is now operational.

however, I observe the following:
- From Vista PC I can access all folders and files on XP PC.

- From XP PC I can only access the folders that I manually shared, on at a
time, on the Vista PC.

so I have 2 questions :
1/
Assuming I am user "Daniel" on the Vista PC, how can I share in one
operation all folders and files in the Users\Daniel folder ?

2/
I wanted to start from scratch and deactivate file and printer sharing. How
can I do that? Indeed, if I go to Control Panel > Network File sharing, I
cannot modify the settings in the Network discovery and file sharing
sections : the check boxes are "greyed".

Many thanks in adavance for your kind help.

with brgds,
Daniel




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Old 10-12-2008   #2 (permalink)
Non Sequitur!
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Re: Newbie : questions on file sharing

so you are struggling to make the vista network shares and are a bit at lost
with the options in the network center?

well you are not alone, the vista redesign is sooooo bad that many many
people have the same problem.

Vista sucks in THIS area too... I hope you understood this by now, and just
wait until you run into others "strange and unfriendly"
features of vista.






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Quote:

> (sorry : I also posted this message on
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing)
>
> Hi everybody
>
> I have a smal soho network consisting of a netgear router, a brand new PC
> equipped with Vista Ultimate (let's call it Vista PC), and another PC
> using
> XP SP 3 (XP PC).
> The mapping of the network is OK.
>
> after struggling a bit and thanks to the help of great people on such
> newsgroup, my network is now operational.
>
> however, I observe the following:
> - From Vista PC I can access all folders and files on XP PC.
>
> - From XP PC I can only access the folders that I manually shared, on at a
> time, on the Vista PC.
>
> so I have 2 questions :
> 1/
> Assuming I am user "Daniel" on the Vista PC, how can I share in one
> operation all folders and files in the Users\Daniel folder ?
>
> 2/
> I wanted to start from scratch and deactivate file and printer sharing.
> How
> can I do that? Indeed, if I go to Control Panel > Network File sharing, I
> cannot modify the settings in the Network discovery and file sharing
> sections : the check boxes are "greyed".
>
> Many thanks in adavance for your kind help.
>
> with brgds,
> Daniel
>
>
>
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