I am tyring to share my hard drives over my home network, but I don't get the
option via Right-Clicking it like I used to in Win XP.

In the Network & Sharing Center, my file sharing staus is "Custom". I
suspect this is why I can't share my hard drive, can anyone tell me what to
do next?

Thx in advance.

Hi.
Sharing files (or drives) across a home network between PCs running both XP
and Vista can be tricky. Please take a look at this article, which I think
does a nice job of walking people through how to configure Vista to make
sharing possible.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx

It sounds like you know what to do to make a hard drive shareable in XP.
But, just in case, here's an article that goes over the details.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...lesharing.mspx


Hope this helps. Please let me know how it works out.

Michael Stroh
User Assistance Writer
Microsoft Corp.


"filesharingcustom" wrote in
message ...
I am tyring to share my hard drives over my home network, but I don't get
the
option via Right-Clicking it like I used to in Win XP.

In the Network & Sharing Center, my file sharing staus is "Custom". I
suspect this is why I can't share my hard drive, can anyone tell me what
to
do next?

Thx in advance.

I've gone thru that tutorial with no resolve.

I was hoping for a more specific way to have File Sharing show a status of
'ON' as opposed to 'CUSTOM'.

Again, thx in advance for any help!

"Michael Stroh [MSFT]" wrote:

Hi.
Sharing files (or drives) across a home network between PCs running both XP
and Vista can be tricky. Please take a look at this article, which I think
does a nice job of walking people through how to configure Vista to make
sharing possible.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx

It sounds like you know what to do to make a hard drive shareable in XP.
But, just in case, here's an article that goes over the details.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...lesharing.mspx


Hope this helps. Please let me know how it works out.

Michael Stroh
User Assistance Writer
Microsoft Corp.


"filesharingcustom" wrote in
message ...
I am tyring to share my hard drives over my home network, but I don't get
the
option via Right-Clicking it like I used to in Win XP.

In the Network & Sharing Center, my file sharing staus is "Custom". I
suspect this is why I can't share my hard drive, can anyone tell me what
to
do next?

Thx in advance.

I have the same sharing problem between my XP Pro and Vista.
I created usernames on both XP Pro and Vista boxes.
From my XPPro i can see all files in the Public folder of the Vista box but
the Vista box only see my Shared document folder on my XP Pro box ONLY after
I restart the XP Pro box and FOR ONLY 10 or 15 seconds ( I pinged the XP Pro
box from the Vista box and got about 20 Replies and it went to Request timed
out).
I would appreciate anyone's feedback on what am I missing here?
Hank Nguyen.


"filesharingcustom" wrote:

I've gone thru that tutorial with no resolve.

I was hoping for a more specific way to have File Sharing show a status of
'ON' as opposed to 'CUSTOM'.

Again, thx in advance for any help!

"Michael Stroh [MSFT]" wrote:

Hi.
Sharing files (or drives) across a home network between PCs running both XP
and Vista can be tricky. Please take a look at this article, which I think
does a nice job of walking people through how to configure Vista to make
sharing possible.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx

It sounds like you know what to do to make a hard drive shareable in XP.
But, just in case, here's an article that goes over the details.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...lesharing.mspx


Hope this helps. Please let me know how it works out.

Michael Stroh
User Assistance Writer
Microsoft Corp.


"filesharingcustom" wrote in
message ...
I am tyring to share my hard drives over my home network, but I don't get
the
option via Right-Clicking it like I used to in Win XP.

In the Network & Sharing Center, my file sharing staus is "Custom". I
suspect this is why I can't share my hard drive, can anyone tell me what
to
do next?

Thx in advance.

The File sharing status can't be changed to on when network is not
running...

You might have turned off workstation service in vista. To turn it on
click start as
and type services.msc and press enter shown below

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following screen will appear..

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select workstation service, right click select properties and choose
start-up type automatic....
Note: other dependent services must be running..
if they are not,first turn them on.

Now try changing file sharing status in sharing center

Post a reply if works......













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