HELP - Connecting the 'shareddocs' folder from XP laptop to Vista PC

[Ben]

Recently I upgraded the home pc (Hpc) to Vista (Home Premium 2006). I also
have a laptop (lap) at home that runs XP (Home ed, ver. 2002 SP2)

I have these 2 networked through a wireless router, the router is connected
to the Hpc. There are no problems with connecting to the internet on both
Hpc and lap. I can see and access all (except one) of the shared folders
that I am sharing between the Hpc and lap.

However, the 'shareddocs' folder of lap cannot be access by the Hpc (Vista).
This is where I'm stuck and have been for a couple of days trying to figure
it out. Hoping you guys can help out with this!!

The message is:
\\xxx\shareddocs is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
this network resource. Contact the administrator of this service to find out
if you have access permission.
Access denied.

Both the Hpc and lap are single user logins (no password required and no
other users have been setup). This should mean that every time I turn on the
Hpc and lap I should be the administrator. right?

Hope you guys can help out, this is driving me nuts. Thanks in advance.

Ben

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Recently I upgraded the home pc (Hpc) to Vista (Home Premium 2006). I also
have a laptop (lap) at home that runs XP (Home ed, ver. 2002 SP2)

I have these 2 networked through a wireless router, the router is
connected to the Hpc. There are no problems with connecting to the
internet on both Hpc and lap. I can see and access all (except one) of the
shared folders that I am sharing between the Hpc and lap.

Is that folder explicitly shared?

However, the 'shareddocs' folder of lap cannot be access by the Hpc
(Vista). This is where I'm stuck and have been for a couple of days trying
to figure it out. Hoping you guys can help out with this!!

The message is:
\\xxx\shareddocs is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
this network resource. Contact the administrator of this service to find
out if you have access permission.
Access denied.

Both the Hpc and lap are single user logins (no password required and no
other users have been setup). This should mean that every time I turn on
the Hpc and lap I should be the administrator. right?

Maybe. Go into Control Panel, Users, and see if the only user listed is
Administrator. If it isn't, then your user account may be an admin-level
account, but isn't "the" Administrator account.

If the only account *is* Administrator - this is a very bad idea. Make a
new user account and migrate your data and settings there. Use the
Administrator account only for maintenance.

Make accounts on both systems using the same name and password. This will
help the systems recognise each other.

Incidentally, by default, if there is no password on the account, tasks
scheduled with the WIndows Task Scheduler will not run. This includes a
number of anti-virus and backup applications. You can turn this behaviour
off, but it further compromises system security.

HTH
-pk