Vista Sharing...

[BDole]

Enabled sharing on a few folders on a PC. All PC's on LAN are the same
workgroup. Network Discovery ON, File Sharing ON, Pulic Folder Sharing ON,
Password Protected Sharing OFF, but still cannot connect to these folders
from other PC's...UAC is also off. What am I missing??? Anyone???

TIA

-Greg

 

[AlexB]

I will pretend that I understand what I am talking about, so I will be
brief.

Turn UAC back ON, open Local Users and groups GUI from control panel or by
lusrmgr.msc in the Command Prompt with run as administrator. Add yourselves
to the group Administrators as a user.

Go to the folder in question, right click, properties, Security tab, add
yourselves to the permissions (users who access it), make sure you give
yourselves "Full control," read/write.

Make sure you are recognized by other machines (I assume they are all
Vistas) as a member of the administrator group or whatever, you can create a
special group of your choice just for access of this folder. It has to be
uniform across the network.

Before you checked if the recipe is successful make sure that the folders
your are trying to access are "Public Folders" as you seem to feel.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

You have to enable Password Protected Sharing, if you are connecting your
Vista PC from an XP PC, you will need to have a password protected account
on the Windows XP or Vista PC too. Next, make sure that both computers are
in the same workgroup.

 

[Mick Murphy]

Utter rubbish, Andre!
You do NOT have to have password protected sharing enabled to share between
XP and Vista.

It is much easier for people with 2-3 comps on a home network to have
password protected turned off.
They don't want the hassle.

I have set a lot of LANs up for people,(XP and Vistas, vistas and Vistas)
but I do it my way; it works!

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

I am going to ask you kindly to stop using a derogative tone when replying
to post. If you want to contribute and help, post your views without the
need to act like an immature individual. We are all here to help not outdo
and demean each other.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry

 

[Mick Murphy]

Andre, you are the immature individual.
You don't understand Networking; stay out of it!

Furthermore, you don't bother to read a lot of posts completely before
replying to them.

The bottom line is: STOP giving incorrect answers!

If you don't know; DON'T reply!

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

I have read your posts and if I were summarize to summarize it in six words,
it would be 'off topic insults and pure rubbish'. I will not stoop to your
level though, but its pretty obvious you are just an obnoxious, rude
individual with an agenda.

 

[BDole]

Hey man...Thanks for your reply. Don't see anything about groups in User
GUI from the control panel and when I try to run the snap in you posted, it
said that that paticular snap-in is not available in Vista Home
Edition...Let me ask you another question and pardon my ignorance, Why turn
back on UAC? I find it SOOOO annoying. I have to acknowledge ever damn
thing I try to do on the PC.

Any other suggestions?
(And good luck with your pissin contest, I appreciate your input...)

Cheers

 

[Mick Murphy]

You are VERY immature!

It is obvious!
You WON'T admit when you are wrong!

Your agenda is to see your name in "lights" here.
Get a job; get a life!

 

[SG]

Andre Da Costa,

If this is your job and your life then by all means keep up the good work
bud :>)
Oh BTW, if I figure out how to put your name in lights, any particular color
your prefer" VBG

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Thank you SG, Neon lights will do just fine.