XP Home Edition to Vista 32-bit Home Premium

[timb]

I'm trying to use the Vista Back Up utility to back up my notebook files to
a Maxtor external hard drive installed on a desktop system running XP Home
Edition SP2...

I configured the maxtor drive to "shared on the network" read/write using
the share tab on the drive properties... Vista can see the drive as network
resource and can even copy files (notebook to maxtor and back), create
folders, etc.

When I try using the Vista Back Up utility, however, the wizard prompts for
a user ID and Password... I enter my XP user ID and Password... and it tells
me that it can't authenticate... I'm presuming there's some permission on
the drive that needs set, but XP Home Edition doesn't give access to
permissions the way XP Pro does...

Is there any way to by-pass or set the permissions on XP so the Vista Back
Up utility will work ? Cobian or some other back up utility would probably
work but I'd prefer just using Vista...

Any ideas folks ? thanks... m

 

[Eric Cross [MVP]]

Hello,

Windows XP Home Edition isn't supported as a backup location over a network
because you cannot set permissions. You need to be running Windows XP Pro
with Simple File Sharing disabled.

For more details, please see:
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/09/27/458871.aspx

 

[timb]

Thanks Eric...

I upgarded the host to XP Pro... turned off simple file sharing and gave
full contol permissions to "administrators", etc., and I get this error when
trying to run the back up from the notebook (Vista Home) to the usb drive on
the XP Pro box...

"The network share could not be accessed for the following reason:

No mapping between account names and security IDs was done. (0x800705534)"

What am I missing or doing wrong ?

 

[Eric Cross [MVP]]

Does the account you are using the same on both computers with a password?

--
Eric Cross
Microsoft MVP (Windows Networking)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com