Vista - Share root drive C:---Nothing works for me!

To anyone who can help---

Here is my problem. I added a Vista Preimum laptop to a small network NT 4.0
and XP Pro and Home machines. I need to have total access to all machine's
drives from whatever machine I log on to under any user name and password,
and yes I know it isn't recommended.

The Vista laptop has no problem accessing the other machines and drives, but
my other machines can't access the C: drive on the Vista laptop. I added the
suggested addition to the registry
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system\
" posted in many threads, I've added all the possible users in the Share
Permissions under the Group or User Names and including Dailup, terminal
user, network service, batch, preformance monitor, preformance log user, and
many others. Guess what, still can't access the C: drive.

I've check and uncheked boxes, rebooted, have sharing enabled, workgroups
are the same name, turned on and off UAC.

What if I changed the drive letter of the drive?---Any help is greatly
appriciated as I'm ready to format the drive and install XP.


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Chef John V. wrote:
> To anyone who can help---
>
> Here is my problem. I added a Vista Preimum laptop to a small network NT 4.0
> and XP Pro and Home machines. I need to have total access to all machine's
> drives from whatever machine I log on to under any user name and password,
> and yes I know it isn't recommended.
>
> The Vista laptop has no problem accessing the other machines and drives, but
> my other machines can't access the C: drive on the Vista laptop. I added the
> suggested addition to the registry
> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system\
> " posted in many threads, I've added all the possible users in the Share
> Permissions under the Group or User Names and including Dailup, terminal
> user, network service, batch, preformance monitor, preformance log user, and
> many others. Guess what, still can't access the C: drive.
>
> I've check and uncheked boxes, rebooted, have sharing enabled, workgroups
> are the same name, turned on and off UAC.
>
> What if I changed the drive letter of the drive?---Any help is greatly
> appriciated as I'm ready to format the drive and install XP.
>
>

From Michael Bell, MS - When you share out the root of a drive in
Vista, the UI only allows this through the advanced sharing option.
When the advanced sharing option is used it only sets the share
permissions. The actual permissions on a file share are a combination
of Folder and Share permissions. In Vista the everyone group doesn't
have permissions so when you connect without a password the system you
can see the folders but not access them or possibly connect to the share
but fail to open it.

1. Open Computer
2. Right click on the shared drive and select properties from the
context menu
3. Select the Security Tab in the displayed properties sheet.

If you are connecting to the computer with no password then you are
connecting with the guest account. In order to access the files on the
drive, the everyone group needs to have access set here.


Malke
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Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Malke,

Thank you but there are still a few questions. First, When applying the
changes I got and error "Error occured applying security info, C:/ Windows
Access denied." Yes, I can now oven the drive on the Vista laptop using an XP
desktop to see the folders but I can't open any of them and when I try I
receive the Access denied, contact administrator about permissions error
message?
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Good Cooking Forever!


"Malke" wrote:

> Chef John V. wrote:
> > To anyone who can help---
> >
> > Here is my problem. I added a Vista Preimum laptop to a small network NT 4.0
> > and XP Pro and Home machines. I need to have total access to all machine's
> > drives from whatever machine I log on to under any user name and password,
> > and yes I know it isn't recommended.
> >
> > The Vista laptop has no problem accessing the other machines and drives, but
> > my other machines can't access the C: drive on the Vista laptop. I added the
> > suggested addition to the registry
> > "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system\
> > " posted in many threads, I've added all the possible users in the Share
> > Permissions under the Group or User Names and including Dailup, terminal
> > user, network service, batch, preformance monitor, preformance log user, and
> > many others. Guess what, still can't access the C: drive.
> >
> > I've check and uncheked boxes, rebooted, have sharing enabled, workgroups
> > are the same name, turned on and off UAC.
> >
> > What if I changed the drive letter of the drive?---Any help is greatly
> > appriciated as I'm ready to format the drive and install XP.
> >
> >
>
> From Michael Bell, MS - When you share out the root of a drive in
> Vista, the UI only allows this through the advanced sharing option.
> When the advanced sharing option is used it only sets the share
> permissions. The actual permissions on a file share are a combination
> of Folder and Share permissions. In Vista the everyone group doesn't
> have permissions so when you connect without a password the system you
> can see the folders but not access them or possibly connect to the share
> but fail to open it.
>
> 1. Open Computer
> 2. Right click on the shared drive and select properties from the
> context menu
> 3. Select the Security Tab in the displayed properties sheet.
>
> If you are connecting to the computer with no password then you are
> connecting with the guest account. In order to access the files on the
> drive, the everyone group needs to have access set here.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

Chef John V. wrote:
> Malke,
>
> Thank you but there are still a few questions. First, When applying the
> changes I got and error "Error occured applying security info, C:/ Windows
> Access denied." Yes, I can now oven the drive on the Vista laptop using an XP
> desktop to see the folders but I can't open any of them and when I try I
> receive the Access denied, contact administrator about permissions error
> message?

Since I can't see your machine and I don't share out the root of any of
my drives, I'm not quite sure what you're doing wrong. Did you create
identical user accounts with identical passwords? If not, please try that.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

"Malke" wrote:

Gentlemen: I too have this problem with a Vista system placed into an XP
populated network. The Vista machine was purchased 8/18/07 and in the 11
days since, I have wasted 6-10 hours in phone conversations with both the
manufacturer and Microsoft. Microsoft abslutely refuses to discuss the
issue, and the manufacturer, although claiming it is not their responsibility
to correct the problem, was at least willing to try. They were not
successful. I tried the Microsoft Support chat line but that site will not
allow access because it says my PIN is not valid. Now, after 11 days of
fruitless inquiry with the presumably responsible parties, I am convinced
that Microsoft has recreated ME 2000, only on a much grander scale, that they
know they have dumped a nightmare on the public, and are doing everything
they can to avoid, evade, or disclaim any responsibility for Vista's obvious
deficiencies.Another thing I have learned in these trying days; don't bother
sending "feedback" to them. They don't even acknowledge them, let alone
reply to them. I have concluded that the only solution to this dilema is to
discard Vista and go back to XP unless, of course, you are wealthy enough to
replace all your XP machines with Vista machines and multiply the problems
with having a single Vista machine.

"Malke" wrote: