Vista - sharing issues

I'm running Vista Ultimate on a pc. Xbox with xbox media center on the hard
drive so I can stream media from my pc, not Xbox360, Windows XP Home on a
pc.

I can't connect to any pc from my xbox when browsing via the workgroup
option in the xbox interface. It says workgroup not found. No workgroup.
Both pcs are on workgroup as the workgroup. In upnp I can connect to the
vista and xp home pc but only via the media sharing option on vista/windows
media player 11. With xp on both computers then i can connect from my xbox
through workgroup. When Vista is installed instead of xp on the vista pc
then i can't connect at all or see anything.

vista pc sharing is on as are the hard drives being shared as well with full
permissions. no firewall of anykind on vista either. i disabled it. i go
into vista sharing and network and turned on the sharing, password needed or
not needed does not matter. i have right clicked on a hard drive in vista
and shared it this way. inside media player 11 i set up media sharing as
automatically allow all devices and i told it to share my whole hard drive.

what gets me is with xp on all pcs then i have no issue, but when vista is
on then there are problems even though i have enabled file sharingt
correctly in vista. it seems vista does not work unless all computers are
vista or something like that.

also for some reason, in xbox it plays music not in order, but
alphabetically. if it is getting the music from xp then it's in order. i
dont get that. i hate that.

Can you please try disabling UAC completely (discussed here
http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/20...22/516066.aspx ) and see if that
helps? (this is for troubleshooting purposes only)

"AMD" wrote:

> I'm running Vista Ultimate on a pc. Xbox with xbox media center on the hard
> drive so I can stream media from my pc, not Xbox360, Windows XP Home on a
> pc.
>
> I can't connect to any pc from my xbox when browsing via the workgroup
> option in the xbox interface. It says workgroup not found. No workgroup.
> Both pcs are on workgroup as the workgroup. In upnp I can connect to the
> vista and xp home pc but only via the media sharing option on vista/windows
> media player 11. With xp on both computers then i can connect from my xbox
> through workgroup. When Vista is installed instead of xp on the vista pc
> then i can't connect at all or see anything.
>
> vista pc sharing is on as are the hard drives being shared as well with full
> permissions. no firewall of anykind on vista either. i disabled it. i go
> into vista sharing and network and turned on the sharing, password needed or
> not needed does not matter. i have right clicked on a hard drive in vista
> and shared it this way. inside media player 11 i set up media sharing as
> automatically allow all devices and i told it to share my whole hard drive.
>
> what gets me is with xp on all pcs then i have no issue, but when vista is
> on then there are problems even though i have enabled file sharingt
> correctly in vista. it seems vista does not work unless all computers are
> vista or something like that.
>
> also for some reason, in xbox it plays music not in order, but
> alphabetically. if it is getting the music from xp then it's in order. i
> dont get that. i hate that.
>
>

"Dmitry Anipko / Windows core networking" <Dmitry Anipko / Windows core
networking@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FE32266D-185B-4820-818B-34D14A4F44E9@microsoft.com...
> Can you please try disabling UAC completely (discussed here
> http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/20...22/516066.aspx ) and see if that
> helps? (this is for troubleshooting purposes only)
>
> "AMD" wrote:
>
>> I'm running Vista Ultimate on a pc. Xbox with xbox media center on the
>> hard
>> drive so I can stream media from my pc, not Xbox360, Windows XP Home on a
>> pc.
>>
>> I can't connect to any pc from my xbox when browsing via the workgroup
>> option in the xbox interface. It says workgroup not found. No workgroup.
>> Both pcs are on workgroup as the workgroup. In upnp I can connect to the
>> vista and xp home pc but only via the media sharing option on
>> vista/windows
>> media player 11. With xp on both computers then i can connect from my
>> xbox
>> through workgroup. When Vista is installed instead of xp on the vista pc
>> then i can't connect at all or see anything.
>>
>> vista pc sharing is on as are the hard drives being shared as well with
>> full
>> permissions. no firewall of anykind on vista either. i disabled it. i go
>> into vista sharing and network and turned on the sharing, password needed
>> or
>> not needed does not matter. i have right clicked on a hard drive in vista
>> and shared it this way. inside media player 11 i set up media sharing as
>> automatically allow all devices and i told it to share my whole hard
>> drive.
>>
>> what gets me is with xp on all pcs then i have no issue, but when vista
>> is
>> on then there are problems even though i have enabled file sharingt
>> correctly in vista. it seems vista does not work unless all computers are
>> vista or something like that.
>>
>> also for some reason, in xbox it plays music not in order, but
>> alphabetically. if it is getting the music from xp then it's in order. i
>> dont get that. i hate that.
>>
>>


This does not tell me how to get rid of UAC in that I've already turned it
off. It doesn't say where to go or whatever.

Anyhow i am reinstalling vista as there are other issues also. i may not
find this topic again and would have to repost it. it would be under my amd
name, but i will try to find this post and mark it for myself instead of
make another one.

"Dmitry Anipko / Windows core networking" <Dmitry Anipko / Windows core
networking@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FE32266D-185B-4820-818B-34D14A4F44E9@microsoft.com...
> Can you please try disabling UAC completely (discussed here
> http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/20...22/516066.aspx ) and see if that
> helps? (this is for troubleshooting purposes only)
>
> "AMD" wrote:
>
>> I'm running Vista Ultimate on a pc. Xbox with xbox media center on the
>> hard
>> drive so I can stream media from my pc, not Xbox360, Windows XP Home on a
>> pc.
>>
>> I can't connect to any pc from my xbox when browsing via the workgroup
>> option in the xbox interface. It says workgroup not found. No workgroup.
>> Both pcs are on workgroup as the workgroup. In upnp I can connect to the
>> vista and xp home pc but only via the media sharing option on
>> vista/windows
>> media player 11. With xp on both computers then i can connect from my
>> xbox
>> through workgroup. When Vista is installed instead of xp on the vista pc
>> then i can't connect at all or see anything.
>>
>> vista pc sharing is on as are the hard drives being shared as well with
>> full
>> permissions. no firewall of anykind on vista either. i disabled it. i go
>> into vista sharing and network and turned on the sharing, password needed
>> or
>> not needed does not matter. i have right clicked on a hard drive in vista
>> and shared it this way. inside media player 11 i set up media sharing as
>> automatically allow all devices and i told it to share my whole hard
>> drive.
>>
>> what gets me is with xp on all pcs then i have no issue, but when vista
>> is
>> on then there are problems even though i have enabled file sharingt
>> correctly in vista. it seems vista does not work unless all computers are
>> vista or something like that.
>>
>> also for some reason, in xbox it plays music not in order, but
>> alphabetically. if it is getting the music from xp then it's in order. i
>> dont get that. i hate that.
>>
>>


does no good. i went into the security pane and disabled all the UAC i
could. i still get -no workgroup- from xbox. when vista is off, it works
fine on my other pc.

i am now reinstalling vista to see if it works any better for my other
problems. as far as networking and media sharing goes, vista is 100% broken.

"Dmitry Anipko / Windows core networking" <Dmitry Anipko / Windows core
networking@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FE32266D-185B-4820-818B-34D14A4F44E9@microsoft.com...
> Can you please try disabling UAC completely (discussed here
> http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/20...22/516066.aspx ) and see if that
> helps? (this is for troubleshooting purposes only)
>
> "AMD" wrote:
>
>> I'm running Vista Ultimate on a pc. Xbox with xbox media center on the
>> hard
>> drive so I can stream media from my pc, not Xbox360, Windows XP Home on a
>> pc.
>>
>> I can't connect to any pc from my xbox when browsing via the workgroup
>> option in the xbox interface. It says workgroup not found. No workgroup.
>> Both pcs are on workgroup as the workgroup. In upnp I can connect to the
>> vista and xp home pc but only via the media sharing option on
>> vista/windows
>> media player 11. With xp on both computers then i can connect from my
>> xbox
>> through workgroup. When Vista is installed instead of xp on the vista pc
>> then i can't connect at all or see anything.
>>
>> vista pc sharing is on as are the hard drives being shared as well with
>> full
>> permissions. no firewall of anykind on vista either. i disabled it. i go
>> into vista sharing and network and turned on the sharing, password needed
>> or
>> not needed does not matter. i have right clicked on a hard drive in vista
>> and shared it this way. inside media player 11 i set up media sharing as
>> automatically allow all devices and i told it to share my whole hard
>> drive.
>>
>> what gets me is with xp on all pcs then i have no issue, but when vista
>> is
>> on then there are problems even though i have enabled file sharingt
>> correctly in vista. it seems vista does not work unless all computers are
>> vista or something like that.
>>
>> also for some reason, in xbox it plays music not in order, but
>> alphabetically. if it is getting the music from xp then it's in order. i
>> dont get that. i hate that.
>>
>>

Well ok I'm on my other pc and found this thread easy so i have it to watch
now. i can't use the pc though as here is my main issue.

I'm totally desperate for a fix. it's my folks pc.

using asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe board. 2gb dual channel ram, amdx2 5200+. evga
7800gt pci-e card. 2 wd 10k rpm 74gb in raid 0 on sata 1 and 2. 160gb drive
on sata 3. dvdrw on ide, floppy drive too. bios is set correctly to boot
from the raid 0. sata raid is enabled for sata1 and 2 and disabled for the
rest. so the bios is set properly.

in the vista install it finds the hard drives fine. so i install to the raid
0 drives. it boots fine after the install. as soon as i take out the dvd it
won't boot anymore. says boot mgr missing, intert system disk etc. shut down
won't work nor will restart. if i say restart then the monitor goes black as
it looses signal, nothing else happens. same thing for shut down.

can anyone please help me out?