I have XP on my desktop and Vista Home Premium on my laptop.

I have enabled selective file (folder) sharing on both machines; mainly
document folders.

My Vista machine 'sees' everything I've shared on my XP machine; my XP sees
nothing on my Vista machine. I get the standard error message on XP, 'You
don't have permissions....'

What additional actions are needed (to Vista) to allow it to share selective
folders with my XP machine??? I am a single user with administrative
privileges. I do not used passwords on either machine; is this mandatory on
Vista?

OldEd

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:31:09 -0400, "OldManEd" wrote:

I have XP on my desktop and Vista Home Premium on my laptop.

I have enabled selective file (folder) sharing on both machines; mainly
document folders.

My Vista machine 'sees' everything I've shared on my XP machine; my XP sees
nothing on my Vista machine. I get the standard error message on XP, 'You
don't have permissions....'

What additional actions are needed (to Vista) to allow it to share selective
folders with my XP machine??? I am a single user with administrative
privileges. I do not used passwords on either machine; is this mandatory on
Vista?

OldEd

Ed,

Did you set the Vista Network Location Type to Private, to open the firewall
properly? If you have a single user network, and you truly want to open the
Vista computer to your network, then disable password protected sharing, and
enable the Guest account.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx#EED
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net...ta_fp.mspx#EED

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.

Are you running any third party fire walls? I had this same problem with my
laptop and pc, I was running Nortons Internet security, I found that even
though I had entered the network range into the firewall, the intrusion
prevention was screwing it all up. Once I entered the ip's for all the pc's
on the network into the trusted page of the intrusion prevention everything
worked fine.

Linda

"OldManEd" wrote:

I have XP on my desktop and Vista Home Premium on my laptop.

I have enabled selective file (folder) sharing on both machines; mainly
document folders.

My Vista machine 'sees' everything I've shared on my XP machine; my XP sees
nothing on my Vista machine. I get the standard error message on XP, 'You
don't have permissions....'

What additional actions are needed (to Vista) to allow it to share selective
folders with my XP machine??? I am a single user with administrative
privileges. I do not used passwords on either machine; is this mandatory on
Vista?

OldEd

Thanks, this kb(?) article worked for me. I disabled password protection and
gave 'everyone' permissions.
Now have complete file sharing both ways between Vista laptop and XP
desktop.
I am not running Norton's firewall; just Windows' and the router's
firewalls.
OldEd

"Chuck" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:31:09 -0400, "OldManEd"
wrote:

I have XP on my desktop and Vista Home Premium on my laptop.

I have enabled selective file (folder) sharing on both machines; mainly
document folders.

My Vista machine 'sees' everything I've shared on my XP machine; my XP
sees
nothing on my Vista machine. I get the standard error message on XP, 'You
don't have permissions....'

What additional actions are needed (to Vista) to allow it to share
selective
folders with my XP machine??? I am a single user with administrative
privileges. I do not used passwords on either machine; is this mandatory
on
Vista?

OldEd

Ed,

Did you set the Vista Network Location Type to Private, to open the
firewall
properly? If you have a single user network, and you truly want to open
the
Vista computer to your network, then disable password protected sharing,
and
enable the Guest account.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx#EED
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net...ta_fp.mspx#EED

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:24:15 -0400, "OldManEd" wrote:

"Chuck" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:31:09 -0400, "OldManEd"
wrote:

I have XP on my desktop and Vista Home Premium on my laptop.

I have enabled selective file (folder) sharing on both machines; mainly
document folders.

My Vista machine 'sees' everything I've shared on my XP machine; my XP
sees
nothing on my Vista machine. I get the standard error message on XP, 'You
don't have permissions....'

What additional actions are needed (to Vista) to allow it to share
selective
folders with my XP machine??? I am a single user with administrative
privileges. I do not used passwords on either machine; is this mandatory
on
Vista?

OldEd

Ed,

Did you set the Vista Network Location Type to Private, to open the
firewall
properly? If you have a single user network, and you truly want to open
the
Vista computer to your network, then disable password protected sharing,
and
enable the Guest account.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx#EED
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net...ta_fp.mspx#EED

Thanks, this kb(?) article worked for me. I disabled password protection and
gave 'everyone' permissions.
Now have complete file sharing both ways between Vista laptop and XP
desktop.
I am not running Norton's firewall; just Windows' and the router's
firewalls.
OldEd

That's the simplest way to go. Thanks for the update.

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.