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August 16th 07, 02:26 PM
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Weird sharing problem
I have a home network (ethernet) with a netgear router. Previously with
three xp machines it worked flawlessly. Added new notebook with Vista. It worked perfect with two of the xp machines and all three xp's could access the Vista machine, but when trying to access one of them from Vista, it would only find the Program Files folder! Both drives on the xp machine were set to share, but the Program Files folder (as well as the other system folders) were not! I played with the Zone Alarm on both, even inactivated Zone alarm on both without any change. Finally changed the settings on Zone alarm on the XP machine and now vista can see everything on it--BUT, drive C and Drive D are seen as sub-folders of Program Files. WOW. Not asking for help, just amazed how it works. -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA The most expensive component is the one that breaks. 
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August 16th 07, 04:53 PM
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Could you please post back with the result of command net view \\xpipaddres (xpipaddress is the IP of the XP)?
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 "Gerald Ross" wrote in message ... I have a home network (ethernet) with a netgear router. Previously with three xp machines it worked flawlessly. Added new notebook with Vista. It worked perfect with two of the xp machines and all three xp's could access the Vista machine, but when trying to access one of them from Vista, it would only find the Program Files folder! Both drives on the xp machine were set to share, but the Program Files folder (as well as the other system folders) were not! I played with the Zone Alarm on both, even inactivated Zone alarm on both without any change. Finally changed the settings on Zone alarm on the XP machine and now vista can see everything on it--BUT, drive C and Drive D are seen as sub-folders of Program Files. WOW. Not asking for help, just amazed how it works. -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA The most expensive component is the one that breaks.
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August 16th 07, 08:27 PM
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Sorry, I don't know what you are talking about. I tried entering that as
a command in the C:\prompt mode but no dice. Robert L [MVP - Networking] wrote: Could you please post back with the result of command net view \\xpipaddres file://\\xpipaddres (xpipaddress is the IP of the XP)? 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 "Gerald Ross" wrote in message ... I have a home network (ethernet) with a netgear router. Previously with three xp machines it worked flawlessly. Added new notebook with Vista. It worked perfect with two of the xp machines and all three xp's could access the Vista machine, but when trying to access one of them from Vista, it would only find the Program Files folder! Both drives on the xp machine were set to share, but the Program Files folder (as well as the other system folders) were not! I played with the Zone Alarm on both, even inactivated Zone alarm on both without any change. Finally changed the settings on Zone alarm on the XP machine and now vista can see everything on it--BUT, drive C and Drive D are seen as sub-folders of Program Files. WOW. Not asking for help, just amazed how it works. -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA The most expensive component is the one that breaks. -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA The most expensive component is the one that breaks.
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August 17th 07, 10:50 AM
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Weird sharing problem
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx
A bit of reading for you Gerald. "Gerald Ross" wrote: Sorry, I don't know what you are talking about. I tried entering that as a command in the C:\prompt mode but no dice. Robert L [MVP - Networking] wrote: Could you please post back with the result of command net view \\xpipaddres file://\\xpipaddres (xpipaddress is the IP of the XP)? 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 "Gerald Ross" wrote in message ... I have a home network (ethernet) with a netgear router. Previously with three xp machines it worked flawlessly. Added new notebook with Vista. It worked perfect with two of the xp machines and all three xp's could access the Vista machine, but when trying to access one of them from Vista, it would only find the Program Files folder! Both drives on the xp machine were set to share, but the Program Files folder (as well as the other system folders) were not! I played with the Zone Alarm on both, even inactivated Zone alarm on both without any change. Finally changed the settings on Zone alarm on the XP machine and now vista can see everything on it--BUT, drive C and Drive D are seen as sub-folders of Program Files. WOW. Not asking for help, just amazed how it works. -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA The most expensive component is the one that breaks. -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA The most expensive component is the one that breaks.
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August 17th 07, 02:13 PM
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Mick Murphy wrote:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx A bit of reading for you Gerald. Thanks, Mick. Most of that I had already figured out. But did not explain how the Vista computer could see the non-shared Program Files folder on the XP computer. "Gerald Ross" wrote: Sorry, I don't know what you are talking about. I tried entering that as a command in the C:\prompt mode but no dice. Robert L [MVP - Networking] wrote: Could you please post back with the result of command net view \\xpipaddres file://\\xpipaddres (xpipaddress is the IP of the XP)? 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 "Gerald Ross" wrote in message ... I have a home network (ethernet) with a netgear router. Previously with three xp machines it worked flawlessly. Added new notebook with Vista. It worked perfect with two of the xp machines and all three xp's could access the Vista machine, but when trying to access one of them from Vista, it would only find the Program Files folder! Both drives on the xp machine were set to share, but the Program Files folder (as well as the other system folders) were not! I played with the Zone Alarm on both, even inactivated Zone alarm on both without any change. Finally changed the settings on Zone alarm on the XP machine and now vista can see everything on it--BUT, drive C and Drive D are seen as sub-folders of Program Files. WOW. Not asking for help, just amazed how it works. -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA The most expensive component is the one that breaks. -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA The most expensive component is the one that breaks. -- Gerald Ross Cochran, GA The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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