Vista Tutorial - Two separate (?) problems - printer and file sharing

On Aug 11, 12:32 am, "Chuck [MVP]" <n...@example.net> wrote:

> Are the XP computers running XP Home, or XP Pro? If Pro, is Simple File Sharing
> Enabled or Disabled?

They're XP Home . . . but since I can't even get the two Vista
computers to share I haven't even started trying to bring these in to
the network.

> Be sure to set the Network Location Type on the Vista computers to Private. And
> set Password Protected Sharing to match the file sharing setup on the XP
> computers.

The Network Location Type has been Private from the start.

I did follow the second link you provided, and got to the point of
"Activating an Account Properly for Network Access" - guessing that
Vista won't care that I have password protection off, I figured I'd
best try setting up the Guest account to handle sharing . . . but when
I run the "net user" command, I get

"System error 5 has occurred."
"Access is denied."

I'm back to exactly where I started. What in the world does this
mean?

Thanks -

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:30:31 -0700, Kemps <kemps@optonline.net> wrote:

>On Aug 11, 12:32 am, "Chuck [MVP]" <n...@example.net> wrote:
>
>> Are the XP computers running XP Home, or XP Pro? If Pro, is Simple File Sharing
>> Enabled or Disabled?
>
>They're XP Home . . . but since I can't even get the two Vista
>computers to share I haven't even started trying to bring these in to
>the network.
>
>> Be sure to set the Network Location Type on the Vista computers to Private. And
>> set Password Protected Sharing to match the file sharing setup on the XP
>> computers.
>
>The Network Location Type has been Private from the start.
>
>I did follow the second link you provided, and got to the point of
>"Activating an Account Properly for Network Access" - guessing that
>Vista won't care that I have password protection off, I figured I'd
>best try setting up the Guest account to handle sharing . . . but when
>I run the "net user" command, I get
>
>"System error 5 has occurred."
>"Access is denied."
>
>I'm back to exactly where I started. What in the world does this
>mean?
>
>Thanks -

OK, if your XP is Home edition, you might as well disable Password Protected
Sharing on the Vista computers, and learn to deal with Guest based network
access.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Guest>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...-xp.html#Guest

If you're using your Vista computer properly, you'll have to run "net user" as
an administrator.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/06/command-window-in-windows-vista.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2007/0...ows-vista.html

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