Hi all.

I'm trying this message again because I haven't had a useful answer
but, having had some answers, and it's weekend, the original is likely
to be overlooked. I've had this problem for three weeks now, so it's
becoming urgent.

I have two PCs, each running Vista Business, which are connected by an
Ethernet cable.

I can see and navigate the Public folders in both directions but my
own folders, although visible in both directions, can only be accessed
one way, say from machine A to machine B. When I try from machine B,
shared folders are visible on machine A, but give "Access is denied"
when I click on them.

I have read that the network should be made Private but every time I
make it Private, on both machines, after a short time it reverts to
Public of its own accord.

Anyone have any ideas?

Gale.

Gale Green wrote:


Hi all.

I'm trying this message again because I haven't had a useful answer
but, having had some answers, and it's weekend, the original is likely
to be overlooked. I've had this problem for three weeks now, so it's
becoming urgent.

I have two PCs, each running Vista Business, which are connected by an
Ethernet cable.

I can see and navigate the Public folders in both directions but my
own folders, although visible in both directions, can only be accessed
one way, say from machine A to machine B. When I try from machine B,
shared folders are visible on machine A, but give "Access is denied"
when I click on them.

This is most probably because of not creating matching user
accounts/passwords. See below.

Create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. You do not need
to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords
assigned to each user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just
need to exist and match on all machines. DO NOT NEGLECT TO CREATE
PASSWORDS, EVEN IF ONLY SIMPLE ONES. If you wish a machine to boot directly
to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for convenience, you
can do this. The instructions at this link work for both XP and Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

Malke
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