Hi:
I have successfully managed to connect a laptop running Vista Business
to a desktop running XP Pro, and share files on the latter, with one
hitch. When I log onto the XP machine with an account that has admin
rights, the sharing gets disabled in Vista, i.e, I get a "cannot
access" error. However if no users are logged on to the desktop OR if
I log on with an account that is NOT an admin, then the Vista laptop
can access all the shared folders on the desktop.
Any solutions?
Thanks - Ram

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/l.../bb727037.aspx

Have a read.

"Ramkumar Ramaswamy" wrote:

> Hi:
> I have successfully managed to connect a laptop running Vista Business
> to a desktop running XP Pro, and share files on the latter, with one
> hitch. When I log onto the XP machine with an account that has admin
> rights, the sharing gets disabled in Vista, i.e, I get a "cannot
> access" error. However if no users are logged on to the desktop OR if
> I log on with an account that is NOT an admin, then the Vista laptop
> can access all the shared folders on the desktop.
> Any solutions?
> Thanks - Ram
>

Thanks this is a great intro article and I did go through it to get
things set up. As of now file sharing IS working perfectly both
ways ... EXCEPT... I need to figure out why sharing stops working
(both ways!) if I merely log in with an Admin account on the XP
machine, This article does not help with that.
-Ram

On Nov 27, 3:06 pm, Mick Murphy <MickMur...@xxxxxx>
wrote:

> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/l.../bb727037.aspx
>
> Have a read.
>
>
>
> "Ramkumar Ramaswamy" wrote:

> > Hi:
> > I have successfully managed to connect a laptop running Vista Business
> > to a desktop running XP Pro, and share files on the latter, with one
> > hitch. When I log onto the XP machine with an account that has admin
> > rights, the sharing gets disabled in Vista, i.e, I get a "cannot
> > access" error. However if no users are logged on to the desktop OR if
> > I log on with an account that is NOT an admin, then the Vista laptop
> > can access all the shared folders on the desktop.
> > Any solutions?
> > Thanks - Ram- Hide quoted text -

>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi Ram. Apparently if you have password protected turned on in Vista Network
and Sharing, you have to have the exact same user accounts set up on both
machines.

I may have read it wrong; don't quote me!!!!!

"Ramkumar Ramaswamy" wrote:

> Thanks this is a great intro article and I did go through it to get
> things set up. As of now file sharing IS working perfectly both
> ways ... EXCEPT... I need to figure out why sharing stops working
> (both ways!) if I merely log in with an Admin account on the XP
> machine, This article does not help with that.
> -Ram
>
> On Nov 27, 3:06 pm, Mick Murphy <MickMur...@xxxxxx>
> wrote:

> > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/l.../bb727037.aspx
> >
> > Have a read.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Ramkumar Ramaswamy" wrote:

> > > Hi:
> > > I have successfully managed to connect a laptop running Vista Business
> > > to a desktop running XP Pro, and share files on the latter, with one
> > > hitch. When I log onto the XP machine with an account that has admin
> > > rights, the sharing gets disabled in Vista, i.e, I get a "cannot
> > > access" error. However if no users are logged on to the desktop OR if
> > > I log on with an account that is NOT an admin, then the Vista laptop
> > > can access all the shared folders on the desktop.
> > > Any solutions?
> > > Thanks - Ram- Hide quoted text -

> >
> > - Show quoted text -

>
>

Already done! That's why everything works both ways perfectly to start
with. I seem to be turning OFF something when I log into the XP
desktop as admin, which makes everything stop working. The moment I
log off as admin things work again both ways. In fact I checked the
security logs too and it shows a successful logon from Vista when I am
logged in as admin on the XP, but Vista shows an error saying "not
accessible". So it is not a problem with logon credentials.

On Nov 28, 2:34 am, Mick Murphy <MickMur...@xxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Ram. Apparently if you have password protected turned on in Vista Network
> and Sharing, you have to have the exact same user accounts set up on both
> machines.
>
> I may have read it wrong; don't quote me!!!!!
>

Solved this problem. There was a startup process that was blocking
ports. I used msconfig to do a "selective startup", shutting down all
non-MS services, and everything worked fine. Repeated restarts by
adding more services to the selective startup list allowed me to
figure out which one was causing the problem. It was a piece of third-
party software.
-Ram

On Nov 28, 7:11 am, Ramkumar Ramaswamy <ramkumar.ramasw...@xxxxxx>
wrote:

> Already done! That's why everything works both ways perfectly to start
> with. I seem to be turning OFF something when I log into the XP
> desktop as admin, which makes everything stop working. The moment I
> log off as admin things work again both ways. In fact I checked the
> security logs too and it shows a successful logon from Vista when I am
> logged in as admin on the XP, but Vista shows an error saying "not
> accessible". So it is not a problem with logon credentials.
>
> On Nov 28, 2:34 am, Mick Murphy <MickMur...@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>
>

> > Hi Ram. Apparently if you have password protected turned on in Vista Network
> > and Sharing, you have to have the exact same user accounts set up on both
> > machines.

>

> > I may have read it wrong; don't quote me!!!!!- Hide quoted text -

>
> - Show quoted text -