My XP can see my Vista in "MY Network Places". My XP can access, read
modify all files in the Vista _*PUBLIC_*_folder. But my XP computer
cannot access the *_C:_drive_* on my Vista. My XP can also access
everything on my other XP . 3 computers in all. I have set all sharing
on the vista to yes. Turned off firewalls, set netbios in norton to
ALWAYS. But nothing. Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks...
Jack


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Office1rjm wrote:


My XP can see my Vista in "MY Network Places". My XP can access, read
modify all files in the Vista _*PUBLIC_*_folder. But my XP computer
cannot access the *_C:_drive_* on my Vista. My XP can also access
everything on my other XP . 3 computers in all. I have set all sharing
on the vista to yes. Turned off firewalls, set netbios in norton to
ALWAYS. But nothing. Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks...
Jack

It is never best practice to share out an entire drive. Vista has some extra
security in place. If you insist on doing this, here is the workaround 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 not 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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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

Jack,

I too have a small home network set up with a Vista Home Premium Desktop and two Windows XP machines. Same as you, my two XP machines can communicate together completely but the two XP machines (laptops) are denied access by the Vista Desktop. I subscribe to Smart Computing magazine and subscribers have access to free phone tech support. A tech support person took control of one of my XP laptops and the Vista desktop and spent a whole hour trying to resolve the problem and finally suggested I contact MS. He said he could find no problems with my settings. MS wants $79.00 to talk to me. I can go from the Vista machine to the XP laptops OK but "Access Denied" when I go from the laptops to the Vista desktop.

Good Luck, Dick


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See if this helps.

http://www.jimmah.com/vista/content.aspx?id=6

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Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/




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My XP can see my Vista in "MY Network Places". My XP can access, read
modify all files in the Vista _*PUBLIC_*_folder. But my XP computer
cannot access the *_C:_drive_* on my Vista. My XP can also access
everything on my other XP . 3 computers in all. I have set all sharing
on the vista to yes. Turned off firewalls, set netbios in norton to
ALWAYS. But nothing. Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks...
Jack


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