I have a shared drive on an XP PC, which I can access from another XP laptop
no problem. If I try and access it from my Vista laptop, I can see the
computer and the shared drives on it OK, but when I try and open the shared
drive i get the following error after a couple of minutes.

\\xppcname\shareddirectoryname is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. contact the administrator of the
server to find out if you have access permissions. The specified network
name is no longer available.

I do not see anything wrong with the security, but it is a long time since I
set up the XP pc. Is this likely to be a vista problem, given the xp laptop
works ok, or have I got something wrong with my security.

I cannot connect to a printer on this shared pc either.. :-(

Any hints gratefully accepted..

Iain

Hello Iain,

If you haven't already, I suggest that you walk through the steps in this
TechNet Article and see if this helps you.

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

--
Eric Cross
Microsoft MVP (Windows Networking)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


"Iain-M" wrote in message
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I have a shared drive on an XP PC, which I can access from another XP
laptop no problem. If I try and access it from my Vista laptop, I can see
the computer and the shared drives on it OK, but when I try and open the
shared drive i get the following error after a couple of minutes.

\\xppcname\shareddirectoryname is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. contact the administrator of the
server to find out if you have access permissions. The specified network
name is no longer available.

I do not see anything wrong with the security, but it is a long time since
I set up the XP pc. Is this likely to be a vista problem, given the xp
laptop works ok, or have I got something wrong with my security.

I cannot connect to a printer on this shared pc either.. :-(

Any hints gratefully accepted..

Iain

I have also just tried connecting to the public folder on the vista pc from
the xp pc. I can see the folder ok, I can create a new folder in it from
the other PC, but if I try and copy an MP3 file to that folder, I get Cannot
copy filename, the path is too deep. If I copy a text file from the desktop
to the public folder it works. if I copy the MP3 file, I get that error.

This is all really frustrating. Stuff that seems to work really easily
between my XP machines seems to be completely broken from the Vista
laptop.... Not much wow so far :-(

Iain

"Iain-M" wrote in message
...
I have a shared drive on an XP PC, which I can access from another XP
laptop no problem. If I try and access it from my Vista laptop, I can see
the computer and the shared drives on it OK, but when I try and open the
shared drive i get the following error after a couple of minutes.

\\xppcname\shareddirectoryname is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. contact the administrator of the
server to find out if you have access permissions. The specified network
name is no longer available.

I do not see anything wrong with the security, but it is a long time since
I set up the XP pc. Is this likely to be a vista problem, given the xp
laptop works ok, or have I got something wrong with my security.

I cannot connect to a printer on this shared pc either.. :-(

Any hints gratefully accepted..

Iain

"Iain-M" wrote in message
...
I have also just tried connecting to the public folder on the vista pc from
the xp pc. I can see the folder ok, I can create a new folder in it from
the other PC, but if I try and copy an MP3 file to that folder, I get
Cannot copy filename, the path is too deep. If I copy a text file from the
desktop to the public folder it works. if I copy the MP3 file, I get that
error.

This is all really frustrating. Stuff that seems to work really easily
between my XP machines seems to be completely broken from the Vista
laptop.... Not much wow so far :-(


This is all too common -- in fact, I think most people with the Vista/XP
configuration who want to share folders have this. Unfortunately, there are
people who provide solutions that don't work. Perhaps after many hours
(days?) of fiddling with these "solutions" you may be lucky in making it
work, but most of us who tried are still stuck with using only the Public
folder.

Will Microsoft fix this by making the Vista/XP connection a "simple file
sharing" solution as it was with XP and ME? Probably not.

Good luck.

Hi Eric,

I had seen that, but went through it again without much luck. i have my
worgroup name set up same, file sharing enabled, Password access switched
off, etc..

I then tried some lateral thinking and connected the laptop with a network
cable and switched off the wireless network, and lo and behold pretty much
everything appears to be working... So it is something to do with wireless
networking... File sharing is working fine via a hard-wired connection...

Too tired to investigate further onight, and looks like I have a workaround
for now. Strange though, as internet access was working fine via wireless,
and the XP laptop is fine on wireless.

Iain.


"Eric Cross [MVP]" wrote in message
...
Hello Iain,

If you haven't already, I suggest that you walk through the steps in this
TechNet Article and see if this helps you.

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

--
Eric Cross
Microsoft MVP (Windows Networking)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com


"Iain-M" wrote in message
...
I have a shared drive on an XP PC, which I can access from another XP
laptop no problem. If I try and access it from my Vista laptop, I can see
the computer and the shared drives on it OK, but when I try and open the
shared drive i get the following error after a couple of minutes.

\\xppcname\shareddirectoryname is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. contact the administrator of
the server to find out if you have access permissions. The specified
network name is no longer available.

I do not see anything wrong with the security, but it is a long time
since I set up the XP pc. Is this likely to be a vista problem, given
the xp laptop works ok, or have I got something wrong with my security.

I cannot connect to a printer on this shared pc either.. :-(

Any hints gratefully accepted..

Iain

I have a similar problem. I just got a Vista pc and connected it into my
network of 5 other XP machines. Plugged it into the router and can
connect to the internet fine. It is a Private network as defined by
Vista. I went to one of my other machines and typed in net view and I
can see the vista machine but when I go to the vista machine and type in
net view it sees nothing - I get an error 51 "windows cannot find the
network path....etc". I have file sharing turned on and turning off the
firewall makes no difference. Anyone have any ideas how to get vista to
play in a pure windows environment? I would have expected this to be
simple but there you go!


--
rmmeli

System error 51 "windows cannot find the network path" could be name
resolution, firewall and computer browser issue. Can you net view using XP
IP, for example net view \\192.168.0.2?

--
Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com


"rmmeli" wrote in message
...

I have a similar problem. I just got a Vista pc and connected it into my
network of 5 other XP machines. Plugged it into the router and can
connect to the internet fine. It is a Private network as defined by
Vista. I went to one of my other machines and typed in net view and I
can see the vista machine but when I go to the vista machine and type in
net view it sees nothing - I get an error 51 "windows cannot find the
network path....etc". I have file sharing turned on and turning off the
firewall makes no difference. Anyone have any ideas how to get vista to
play in a pure windows environment? I would have expected this to be
simple but there you go!


--
rmmeli

or just typing in \\ipaddress in the Explorer Window.

Also, try pinging the other computer: Open a command prompt and type
in -
ping 192.168.0.2 (replace 192.168.0.2 with an IP Address of one of the
other computers). Do you get an answer?
---
Jeffrey Randow

Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006
http://www.networkblog.net

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:15:40 -0600, "Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)"
wrote:

System error 51 "windows cannot find the network path" could be name
resolution, firewall and computer browser issue. Can you net view using XP
IP, for example net view \\192.168.0.2?

I can ping both ways XP-Vista and Vista-XP with both ip address and
host name.

Doing a net view by ip address does not work either.

If I issue a net view from XP I get
"System error 5 has occurred
Access is denied."

Any other suggestions?
Thanks.


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rmmeli

Some progress.... I noticed on the XP machine I was working on that I
did not have "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Network
Connections"turned on for my network connection. That has resulted in
Vista not getting the System Error 51. Now both machines get the System
Error 5. I have turned off firewalls on both machines to see if that
changed anything but still get the System Error 5. Access Denied.

What else do I need to check?

Thanks.


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rmmeli