Hello. We are having problems sharing folders on our Vista PC's. These
PC's are on a domain. We go through the sharing process and add the names
of users. The process seems to complete properly. When the other user
tries to map a drive to the shared folder the message comes back that the
network path can not be found. We have tried turning off the Windows
Firewall and Symantec Endpoint Protection. I have also noticed that I can
not ping many of the Vista PC's. I get 'request timed out' messages. Any
thoughts of what might be going on with these PC's?? Thanks much for any
thoughts.

For troubleshooting, start the Vista with safe mode with network. Can you
ping it by IP?

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"Dave D" wrote in message
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Hello. We are having problems sharing folders on our Vista PC's. These
PC's are on a domain. We go through the sharing process and add the names
of users. The process seems to complete properly. When the other user
tries to map a drive to the shared folder the message comes back that the
network path can not be found. We have tried turning off the Windows
Firewall and Symantec Endpoint Protection. I have also noticed that I
can not ping many of the Vista PC's. I get 'request timed out' messages.
Any thoughts of what might be going on with these PC's?? Thanks much for
any thoughts.

Dave D wrote:
Hello. We are having problems sharing folders on our Vista PC's. These
PC's are on a domain. We go through the sharing process and add the
names of users. The process seems to complete properly. When the
other user tries to map a drive to the shared folder the message comes
back that the network path can not be found. We have tried turning off
the Windows Firewall and Symantec Endpoint Protection. I have also
noticed that I can not ping many of the Vista PC's. I get 'request
timed out' messages. Any thoughts of what might be going on with these
PC's?? Thanks much for any thoughts.

Dave D, I suggest you browse posts on http://www.vistahelp.ca/ forums. I
had exactly the same problems but with different software and TechB
(Kerry Brown) helped me out. He's an MVP but he's also excellent and his
advice works.

The first thing to do is create the same account with the same password
on all the computers. Yes, a password is needed.

Once you have created ONE user for all machines with the same password,
when users are logged in under their own names and want to "attach" to
another computer, you map a drive letter to the machine name
\\machine\path\ and log into that machine as the new "general" name you
created on all the machines. This works.

Ask the forum about "ipconfig /all" to see why you can't ping the machines.

Thanks for responses. I was able to finally get this user's folder shared.
The way I ended up doing it is very strange. In Active Directory I had to
take his computer, move it to an OU that had no Group Policy applied to it,
and then move it back to the OU it was in. Once I did that I could ping his
PC and map drives to his shared folders. Make sense??

I experimented with another Vista PC here. I could not see this PC in the
network nor could I ping it. I tried pinging several IP's in the range that
this PC should have fallen into and didn't get any valid replies. I shared
some folders on the PC but couldn't map drives to them. I moved the PC to
an OU without any GP, restarted the PC, moved it back to where it belonged,
restarted once again. Now I am able to see the PC in the network, I can
ping it by it's name, I can map drives to the shared folders. And even more
oddly, before I did any moves when I pinged what turned out to be the PC's
IP, I got an incorrect host name.

I'm not sure why this works. But it did. It just makes me love Vista even
more.

Thanks again for the help


"ProfQ" wrote in message
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Dave D wrote:
Hello. We are having problems sharing folders on our Vista PC's. These
PC's are on a domain. We go through the sharing process and add the
names of users. The process seems to complete properly. When the other
user tries to map a drive to the shared folder the message comes back
that the network path can not be found. We have tried turning off the
Windows Firewall and Symantec Endpoint Protection. I have also noticed
that I can not ping many of the Vista PC's. I get 'request timed out'
messages. Any thoughts of what might be going on with these PC's??
Thanks much for any thoughts.

Dave D, I suggest you browse posts on http://www.vistahelp.ca/ forums. I
had exactly the same problems but with different software and TechB (Kerry
Brown) helped me out. He's an MVP but he's also excellent and his advice
works.

The first thing to do is create the same account with the same password on
all the computers. Yes, a password is needed.

Once you have created ONE user for all machines with the same password,
when users are logged in under their own names and want to "attach" to
another computer, you map a drive letter to the machine name
\\machine\path\ and log into that machine as the new "general" name you
created on all the machines. This works.

Ask the forum about "ipconfig /all" to see why you can't ping the
machines.

Yes, it can be quite a pain to setup Vista on a mixed network.
I suppose if you can't access the machine or share, it's more secure.
That isn't how I like to increase security...LOL

--
A Professional Amateur...If anyone knew it all, none of would be here!

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"Dave D" wrote in message
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Thanks for responses. I was able to finally get this user's folder
shared. The way I ended up doing it is very strange. In Active Directory
I had to take his computer, move it to an OU that had no Group Policy
applied to it, and then move it back to the OU it was in. Once I did that
I could ping his PC and map drives to his shared folders. Make sense??

I experimented with another Vista PC here. I could not see this PC in the
network nor could I ping it. I tried pinging several IP's in the range
that this PC should have fallen into and didn't get any valid replies. I
shared some folders on the PC but couldn't map drives to them. I moved
the PC to an OU without any GP, restarted the PC, moved it back to where
it belonged, restarted once again. Now I am able to see the PC in the
network, I can ping it by it's name, I can map drives to the shared
folders. And even more oddly, before I did any moves when I pinged what
turned out to be the PC's IP, I got an incorrect host name.

I'm not sure why this works. But it did. It just makes me love Vista
even more.

Thanks again for the help


"ProfQ" wrote in message
...
Dave D wrote:
Hello. We are having problems sharing folders on our Vista PC's. These
PC's are on a domain. We go through the sharing process and add the
names of users. The process seems to complete properly. When the
other user tries to map a drive to the shared folder the message comes
back that the network path can not be found. We have tried turning off
the Windows Firewall and Symantec Endpoint Protection. I have also
noticed that I can not ping many of the Vista PC's. I get 'request
timed out' messages. Any thoughts of what might be going on with these
PC's?? Thanks much for any thoughts.

Dave D, I suggest you browse posts on http://www.vistahelp.ca/ forums. I
had exactly the same problems but with different software and TechB
(Kerry Brown) helped me out. He's an MVP but he's also excellent and his
advice works.

The first thing to do is create the same account with the same password
on all the computers. Yes, a password is needed.

Once you have created ONE user for all machines with the same password,
when users are logged in under their own names and want to "attach" to
another computer, you map a drive letter to the machine name
\\machine\path\ and log into that machine as the new "general" name you
created on all the machines. This works.

Ask the forum about "ipconfig /all" to see why you can't ping the
machines.