Networking and sharing

[Guest]

I am at my wits end trying to get my desktop and laptop to file share over
wlan.

Both are running vista and both have the same login id and password.

Both computers recognise the other computer on the network along with the
router so I am assuming that my hardware and network are ok.

Both computers are set to the same workgroup.

When I select 'show me all the shared network folders on this computer' both
show everything that I require; drives, shared and public folders and
printers.

All my sharing and discovery settings are correct and the same on each
computer; network discovery, file sharing, public folder sharing and printer
sharing all on, passwords off.

I have also tried setting all folders, drives and printers to share via
properties and all display the correct sharing and netork icons.

Whenever I try to access the other networked computer from the one I am
working on I get the same message 'access denied. you do not have permission.
contact the network manager'. or words to that effect.

Oddly enough, media sharing through media player works fine.

Can somebody please tell me what i need to do. It is drivig me to
distraction.

Thanks

Dave

 

[Dave]

I ran into this as well. Hopefully this is what I did to fix:

- goto control panel/Network and Sharing Center
- expand "sharing and discovery"
- check middle button "turn on sharing so anyone w/ network access can open,
change and create files".

Don't think this should be necessary but seems to be a new twist they added
to Vista sharing...

Dave Kolb
http://DotNetCodeSlingers.com

 

[Dave]

Oops, I should have said "expand public folder sharing"...

 

[Guest]

Many thnks. I have finally got it to work.
I did what you said and one of my computers defaulted to password protected.
I set the other up the same and made sure that both computers had a
password. Both were blank before and that doesn't appear to work.

Thanks again, I can finally get some sleep.

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

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
Many thnks. I have finally got it to work.
I did what you said and one of my computers defaulted to password protected.
I set the other up the same and made sure that both computers had a
password. Both were blank before and that doesn't appear to work.

Thanks again, I can finally get some sleep.