Drive Sharing

[Guest]

I have 2 pcs running in same workgroup PC1 is using XP Pro PC2 is running
VISTA Ultimate. PC2{vista} can access any drive or folder in PC1{xp}.
However PC1{xp} can only access the additional drives in PC2{vixta} not the
Cdrive even though I have enabled sharing of Cdrive. I get the error message
Access is denied. I never had this problem when both pc's were running XP Pro
and file sharing on all drives was enabled
Any Suggestions would be appreciated
Bruce

 

[Rich Milburn [MVP]]

I just tried to repro your problem and could not. I did find that I could
not access C$ - it asked me for creds but did not let me in with the admin
account I usually use on Vista. But it let me in on the sharename I shared
the C drive with manually.

If you right-click your Vista C drive, chose Share (you should see that it
is shared) then chose Advanced Sharing and click Permissions - you should
see that Users at least have Read permissions. If not, add them. I think
you need to use a user name that has a password, I imagine you did that...

Other than that I'm not sure what your problem might be. You said you can
access other drives... what build are you running?

Rich

 

[Guest]

Drive sharing in vista is nearly always firewall related, try turning off
your firewall on all machines and try. i had a similar problem two weeks ago,
turned off firewall and all worked fine, therefore depending on what firewall
you use configure accordingly, you must allow input and output signals pass
through all machines eventhough connected to internet, etc,etc. this must
apply to all computers on the network

 

[Guest]

I just tried to repro your problem and could not. I did find that I could
not access C$ - it asked me for creds but did not let me in with the admin
account I usually use on Vista. But it let me in on the sharename I shared
the C drive with manually.

If you right-click your Vista C drive, chose Share (you should see that it
is shared) then chose Advanced Sharing and click Permissions - you should
see that Users at least have Read permissions. If not, add them. I think
you need to use a user name that has a password, I imagine you did that...

Other than that I'm not sure what your problem might be. You said you can
access other drives... what build are you running?

Rich

 

[Kerry Brown]

There's a registry edit you can do to allow access to admin shares.

http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=41

 

[Guest]

After reading these posts, I am reminded why many choose a Mac.

 

[Kerry Brown]

I spent two hours hooking up an Epson all in one to a new Mac yesterday.
They are not easy to use. The customer had purchased the Mac and the printer
at the same time. They got home, tried to hook up to the Internet but
couldn't figure how to get the Mac to use Wep instead of WPA. They have an
old router. Next they hooked up the printer and inserted the CD that came
with it. I wasn't there but they said they got an error message they didn't
understand. They went to Epson's web site with their XP pc and found out
that the disk was for PowerPC Macs, not Intel Macs. At this point they
called me. It took me half an hour to figure out how to get WEP working. The
router was using the second key. The Mac will only work with the first key
as far as I could tell so we had to temporarily switch the router to use the
first key. Next we had to go to the Epson site and download the Intel
driver. Then I had to figure out how to uninstall the PowerPC driver. Then
the downloaded Epson Intel driver installed but by this time the Mac didn't
like the USB connection to the Epson any more. I could on and on. Macs are
not always easier than Windows. When things go wrong they are much harder to
troubleshoot. It did have a really, really nice display though.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

And just wait until they break. Friend of mine in the UK was recently given
an estimate of GBP1000 for a new system board for his iBook - 2 days out of
warranty. He eventually got a brand new PowerBook for GBP1500. When you
'translate' that into US terms, that's $3000 for the new notebook or $2000
for just the system board.

Having gone through 7 system boards on my old Toshiba notebook (all replaced
under warranty) I know a system board for that was a mere $450.

I'll stick with the ones that have the cheaper parts... and offer the better
warranty.

 

[Steve Urbach]

And just wait until they break. Friend of mine in the UK was recently given
an estimate of GBP1000 for a new system board for his iBook - 2 days out of
warranty. He eventually got a brand new PowerBook for GBP1500. When you
'translate' that into US terms, that's $3000 for the new notebook or $2000
for just the system board.

Having gone through 7 system boards on my old Toshiba notebook (all replaced
under warranty) I know a system board for that was a mere $450.

I'll stick with the ones that have the cheaper parts... and offer the better
warranty.

Have you ever been the one to open and replace internal Notebook
parts, let alone the motherboard?
Cracking the case on my Toshiba to clear a plastic shard from the
touch pad buttons was daunting
(Yes, I drop tested it.)