Problem with sharing drives on Vista and XP network

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I have two computers, XP and Vista. Vista can see and access all of the XP's
partitions on its two drives. From the XP computer I can see and access all
of the partitions of two of the drives but I cannot access any of the
partitions from the drive whose first partition happens to be the operating
system. I get the "you don't have permission, contact the administrator"
message. Since I have successfully set it up to work on the other drives and
partitions I figure there is maybe some kind of other lock on the OS section?
 
parlous said:
I have two computers, XP and Vista. Vista can see and access all of the XP's
partitions on its two drives. From the XP computer I can see and access all
of the partitions of two of the drives but I cannot access any of the
partitions from the drive whose first partition happens to be the operating
system. I get the "you don't have permission, contact the administrator"
message. Since I have successfully set it up to work on the other drives and
partitions I figure there is maybe some kind of other lock on the OS section?
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Vista has many new and excellent security features which IMHO are long
overdue, and I hope they will not be defeated by impatient users who are
spoiled by the very lax security policies of older versions of Windows!

Security comes at a price, and that price is almost always extra effort
and a bit of inconvenience. (But still much more convenient than fixing
the mess left by an intruder.)

File sharing uses the SMB protocol which has always been a huge security
hole for Windows, and I welcome any effort from MS to fix it.

IMHO one potential fix is to install 'users' in a completely separate
partition from the OS (in the hallowed tradition of *nix) so that weak
passwords and such can't compromise the OS itself, even if a particular
user's account is hacked. Vista's new 'Public' folders are a baby step
in that direction.

That's my sermon for today. I now return you to other posters who can
actually answer your question ;o)
 
Hi Kerry!
The link you posted does not draw correctly in IE7 right side of page is
overlaid by the left side .
The link does draw correctly in Firefox though.
 
It displays fine for me in IE7. You should contact the owner of the site and
let them know.
 
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