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| | Can connect Vista laptop to XP Desktop ONLY if not logged on as Admin 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 |
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| | RE: Can connect Vista laptop to XP Desktop ONLY if not logged on as Ad http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/l.../bb727037.aspx Have a read. "Ramkumar Ramaswamy" wrote: Quote: > 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 > |
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| | Re: Can connect Vista laptop to XP Desktop ONLY if not logged on asAd 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: Quote: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/l.../bb727037.aspx > > Have a read. > > > > "Ramkumar Ramaswamy" wrote: Quote: > > 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 - |
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| | Re: Can connect Vista laptop to XP Desktop ONLY if not logged on a 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: Quote: > 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: Quote: > > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/l.../bb727037.aspx > > > > Have a read. > > > > > > > > "Ramkumar Ramaswamy" wrote: Quote: > > > 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 - > |
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| | Re: Can connect Vista laptop to XP Desktop ONLY if not logged on a 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: Quote: > 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!!!!! > |
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| | Re: Can connect Vista laptop to XP Desktop ONLY if not logged on a 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: Quote: > 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: > > > Quote: > > 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. Quote: > > I may have read it wrong; don't quote me!!!!!- Hide quoted text - > - Show quoted text - |
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