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I am trying to use a drive on my Vista Ultimate desktop machine for backup
purposes. I want to back up files from an XP Pro SP2 laptop. I have
followed all the instuctions in
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx. Both
machines use Windows Update to be up to date for Windows.
From the XP machine, using Map Network Drive/Browse..., I can see the name
of the Vista machine (in My Network Places/Entire Network/Microsoft Windows
Network/Workgroup), and a plus sign appears to the left of its name.
Clicking on the machine name shows no sharable folders, not even public
folders; the + simply goes away after a short time.
If I type the full pathname (without using Browse), after a long pause, I
get the message from Windows "The network path \\machine\folder could not be
found" (but with the actual machine and network shared folder names).
Examining the control panel on the Vista machine, it says network discovery,
file sharing, public folder sharing and password protected sharing are all
enabled. The workgroup, username, and password are the same for both
machines. I set up sharing for a few specific folders, and explicitly
allowed total access for the username. From the Vista machine's control
panel, if I click "Show me all the shared network folders on this computer",
I see the folders I set up for sharing.
As a last resort I turned off the firewall on both machines.... as expected,
this did not help.
Any help would be appreciated.
purposes. I want to back up files from an XP Pro SP2 laptop. I have
followed all the instuctions in
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx. Both
machines use Windows Update to be up to date for Windows.
From the XP machine, using Map Network Drive/Browse..., I can see the name
of the Vista machine (in My Network Places/Entire Network/Microsoft Windows
Network/Workgroup), and a plus sign appears to the left of its name.
Clicking on the machine name shows no sharable folders, not even public
folders; the + simply goes away after a short time.
If I type the full pathname (without using Browse), after a long pause, I
get the message from Windows "The network path \\machine\folder could not be
found" (but with the actual machine and network shared folder names).
Examining the control panel on the Vista machine, it says network discovery,
file sharing, public folder sharing and password protected sharing are all
enabled. The workgroup, username, and password are the same for both
machines. I set up sharing for a few specific folders, and explicitly
allowed total access for the username. From the Vista machine's control
panel, if I click "Show me all the shared network folders on this computer",
I see the folders I set up for sharing.
As a last resort I turned off the firewall on both machines.... as expected,
this did not help.
Any help would be appreciated.