Vista - Home Network- Syncing files?

I have a....
PC running Window XP Home. 1Gb ram. 250Gb HD connected via Ethernet cable to
a broadband wireless router
and a Laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium. 2Gb ram. 130Gb HD connected
by wireless.

I've set up the Network and both can use the printer attached to the PC and
both can see each others "My Documents" but I can't find how I can get them
to sync "My Documents" so I can work on either to change etc files on both.
Anyone know if/how this can be done?

Seems it might be easy if both were running Vista but I don't want to
upgrade the PC.

Regards
Bob H

"Bob Hobden" wroteSeeing as nobody has replied perhaps I had better tell what I've found with
a little help from a friend...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...o/synctoy.mspx

A small free program from Microsoft called "SyncToy" that does exactly what
I wanted to do. Sync file between my Vista Laptop and my XP PC. It doesn't
just work for digital photos it works for all files as far as I can see.

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Regards
Bob Hobden

I have an almost identical set-up to Bob Hobden's xcept that my laptop uses
Vista Home Basic. My problem is that I can not see any files or documents on
the laptop from my pc when I open "My Network Places", whereas from the
laptop I can access all files on the pc. The other problem is that although I
can use from the laptop the printer connected to the pc, I have to wait
minutes (!) before the printer is "ready".

The laptop has Symantec Internet Security and disabling that does not help.
I never had such problems when I used a laptop running XP!!!

"Bob Hobden" wrote:

I posted this before but am not sure if it got sent. I have the same set-up
as Bob's but my problem is that, whereas my Vista laptop sees the files and
printer on my XP pc, the converse is not true: no laptop files appear in "My
Network Places" on my pc.
Also it takes minutes (!) for the printer to respond.

"Bob Hobden" wrote:

"NickR" wrote ...Nick, is the " My Docs" file on the laptop "Public"? It has to be. I must
admit my printer reacts quickly to input from the laptop so I don't know
what that problem is although I did load the driver for the printer on the
laptop.

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Regards
Bob Hobden

Thanks for the suggestion Bob. I actually suspected that that was at the
route of my problem but don't know how to fix it. On XP it is as easy as what
you write. But in Vista when I look at "Properties" of Documents and then
"Security" I get a list of Greoup of user names that includes me, SYSTEM and
Administrators, all with full permissions. I can see no way that I can make
the Directory public with Read Only privileges. Do you have a hint?

"Bob Hobden" wrote:

Following up on what I wrote earlier, I managed to find some help on
windowshelp.microsoft.com. What i did not notice is that when you are looking
at the folder list and you click on one of them, a "Share" button appears in
the toolbar. By clicking on that you should be able to share your
file/folders with others. It does not work quite like it is described by MS
and, for example, when I click on Share in the File Sharing window it
declares that the folder is now shared, but when I click on "Show me the
files I am sharing" I get nil ! Well at least, I can now see a laptop folder
in "My Netwrok Places" of my pc, but it is empty :-)

"Bob Hobden" wrote:

"NickR" wrote...You need to get the "Docs" file of your Laptop showing on your PC via the
Network folder and then use "Map Network Drive" on your PC to give it a
drive letter on your PC (Probably will be Y ) then use the program I
suggested for the files you want to sync within the drives on both
computers. If you try to sync all of your docs it will take some time and
some rubbish will flow around, like the examples from Microsoft, so from
experience it's best to choose the few that are important to keep in sync.
For me that was the "Family Tree.paf" file and will be My Photos idc.
It worked for me... eventually!. :-)

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Regards
Bob Hobden

Yes I now do have my Docs file showing in My Network Places on my pc.
However,when I click on it , I get a "permission denied" message. And yet the
sharing window that "Everyone" has reading privileges.
I checked the help on the MS Networks web page but it is not very helpful
since the features which they describe for the "Share" window are simply not
there.
Nick

"Bob Hobden" wrote:

"NickR" wroteNot some password protection on that drive is there?

Have you gone to "Tools" and then "Map Network Drives" and tried to give
that drive a drive letter?
Once you get that you can use the program I suggested originally.


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Regards
Bob Hobden