access/permissions problems...

[Ross M. Greenberg]

My current problem is accessing files on my son's machine (running Vista
Home Premium) from my machine (running Vista Ultimate)

Although his machine's icon shows up in Network, and all of the users on his
machine show up, I only have access to files under "Guest". Logging onto
his machine through LogMeIn and checking in the permissions on
C:\users\guest as opposed to C:\users\Ross Greenberg shows the same
permissions, which is to allow "Full Control".

Yet when I click on the file icon representing "Ross Greenberg" on my
machine I get an Access Denied message.

I figured that if I made my user ID on his machine a member of the
administrative group that these problems would be solved, but unfortunately
MMC/local policy (secpol.msc) is not available on Vista Home Premium.

What can I do so I can access files on my son's machine?

Thanks.

Ross

 

[Ian Betts]

You need to make sure sharing is activated on both computers. That means
locating the files or folder to share and on the toolbar click Share. And
from the list whop you want to share with.

 

[Malke]

My current problem is accessing files on my son's machine (running Vista
Home Premium) from my machine (running Vista Ultimate)

Although his machine's icon shows up in Network, and all of the users on his
machine show up, I only have access to files under "Guest". Logging onto
his machine through LogMeIn and checking in the permissions on
C:\users\guest as opposed to C:\users\Ross Greenberg shows the same
permissions, which is to allow "Full Control".

Yet when I click on the file icon representing "Ross Greenberg" on my
machine I get an Access Denied message.

I figured that if I made my user ID on his machine a member of the
administrative group that these problems would be solved, but unfortunately
MMC/local policy (secpol.msc) is not available on Vista Home Premium.

What can I do so I can access files on my son's machine?

If your son puts the files in the Public folder, can you access them
now? I suspect that Vista Home Premium is similar to XP Home versions
wherein files in users' home directories (XP - My Documents; Vista -
Users\whatever) are not permitted to be shared.


Malke

 

[Ross M. Greenberg]

You need to make sure sharing is activated on both computers. That means
locating the files or folder to share and on the toolbar click Share. And
from the list whop you want to share with.

Sharing is activated on both machines. The directory on my son's machine
is: C:\users\Ross Greenberg. From what I can see, I should have full
privileges on his machine, and logging onto his machine through LogMeIn and
checking permissions and privileges for the C drive, the user's directory,
and the "Ross Greenberg" directory, to user "\\Max\Ross Greenberg" should
have full permission (RWX) on not only the files within that directory, but
on every directory along the way.

Instead, I'm getting Access Is Denied...

 

[Ian Betts]

They are if you as admin allow sharing.

 

[Ross M. Greenberg]

If your son puts the files in the Public folder, can you access them
now? I suspect that Vista Home Premium is similar to XP Home versions
wherein files in users' home directories (XP - My Documents; Vista -
Users\whatever) are not permitted to be shared.

Well I'll be!! I created a test file, cleverly called Tester.Txt, on my
Vista Ultimate machine's desktop and was able to drag that over to the
Public folder on my son's machine, as well as to his "public" desktop
(\\Max\Desktop) , put have no such write access to the Guest account,
although I do have read/execute permission/access to that account.

Thanks kindly! Although I feel that Microsoft's decision to emasculate
Vista Home Premium as grossly as this will seriously make me look for
alternatives not so castrated, I truly appreciate getting a definitive
answer!!

Microsoft: For Shame!

 

[Malke]

Well I'll be!! I created a test file, cleverly called Tester.Txt, on my
Vista Ultimate machine's desktop and was able to drag that over to the
Public folder on my son's machine, as well as to his "public" desktop
(\\Max\Desktop) , put have no such write access to the Guest account,
although I do have read/execute permission/access to that account.

Thanks kindly! Although I feel that Microsoft's decision to emasculate
Vista Home Premium as grossly as this will seriously make me look for
alternatives not so castrated, I truly appreciate getting a definitive
answer!!

Glad that sorted it for you. I suspected my guess was accurate. None of
the Home versions, XP or Vista, are aimed at power users or business
people who want to have fine-grained control over permissions. That's
just the way it is. Certainly if you want alternatives, they are
available. It's your choice.


Malke

 

[Ross M. Greenberg]

Glad that sorted it for you. I suspected my guess was accurate. None of
the Home versions, XP or Vista, are aimed at power users or business
people who want to have fine-grained control over permissions. That's just
the way it is. Certainly if you want alternatives, they are available.
It's your choice.

It's just that restricting such control is sort of silly: I know more than a
few people with home networks. The inability for them to be able to set
even such gross control as allowing permissions to be set to provide for a
User A to maintain files for User B ends up prohibiting even the most
rudimentary maintenance. I would think that for any home network that such
simple maintenance needs to be performed, yet Vista Home Premium -- not Home
Basic -- prohibits this?

Now, I admit my particular situation (Ultimate talking to Home Premium) may
be a bit unique, but there should be alternatives available, for going off a
Microsoft reservation looks to be the only viable alternative that allows me
to accomplish something that was easily accomplished under XP, even under
the same XP<-> Vista connection.

<grumble><grumble>

 

[Malke]

It's just that restricting such control is sort of silly: I know more than a
few people with home networks. The inability for them to be able to set
even such gross control as allowing permissions to be set to provide for a
User A to maintain files for User B ends up prohibiting even the most
rudimentary maintenance. I would think that for any home network that such
simple maintenance needs to be performed, yet Vista Home Premium -- not Home
Basic -- prohibits this?

Now, I admit my particular situation (Ultimate talking to Home Premium) may
be a bit unique, but there should be alternatives available, for going off a
Microsoft reservation looks to be the only viable alternative that allows me
to accomplish something that was easily accomplished under XP, even under
the same XP<-> Vista connection.

I'm not going to argue with your grumble. An operating system is not a
religion, it is a tool. Use the operating system that fits your needs
best. Even though I support every MS operating system, including Server
(yes, I still support DOS and Win9x/ME!), I have used SUSE exclusively
for my own work for 7 years until I switched to OS X this past January.

That's why I say there are always choices. ;-)


Malke