a bit more info, accessing from the ip address of 192.168.0.x\w seems to
allow me access to read, but not edit, delete or create.

this seems to me to be simply a access problem, but I am confused why ip
would work and fqdn wouldnt. is there some weird new security setting that
does not allow you to log on and access over the network? if this is the
case, why on earth does vista use the normal c$ and d$ shares.

"Wilhil" wrote:

Hi

I have a mid size network here of about 30ish machines (made out of laptops,
desktops and servers).

I use the hard drives of all of them for storage of large files across the
network, I have a username and password that is similar on all of them to not
get confused and I go to \\computername\c$ or \d$

I have installed vista on a new machine and using the user I created in
setup, I am unable to log on to it. I have been using computers for years and
have tried pretty much everything I can think of, Vista has changed so many
networking things and it has totally confused me!

anyway, from any machine I have tried both \\vistapc\c$ \d$ (it has both
drives, and they are by default set to share). I have disabled the built in
firewall, and the machine is on the network fine, it can access internet and
other pcs.

I have also on the d drive set up a second share called w with full access
to everyone, and I can now go to that and view the files on the root drive,
but I can not view, modify any files or go in to any subdirectory. the
everyone account does have full access to this folder. on any other machine
when I go to \c$ I usually get a box to login which works, on this vista
machine I either get a box saying access denied or I get a log on box which
seems to not work no matter what I type in (I am sure the name/pass is
correct)

Is there something simple I have overlooked here or some option in Vista to
enable sharing and access to the administrative shares?

Thanks