XP/Vista Networking

[David Schwartz]

Hi all. Before I wrote this post I did try and solve the problem myself on
the Internet, but I read such a wide assortment of fixes I figured I would
go the Newsgroup route before I tried to fix my problem.

My problem is what many of you have experienced already. I have a small 3
computer network in my office. All 3 were running XP. One of them died and
I got a new computer running Vista (this OS is what NOBODY needed.) I
seemed to have networked the new computer. My other XP's see the computer
and sees the shared C drive, but when I try and open up Vista's C drive from
one of the XP's I get (you all know what I'm going to say):

"\Dre-pc\c is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
network resource.. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions. Access is denied."

A giant No-prize to any of you who can tell me what to do to allow me access
to my Vista's C drive.

Make mine Marvel.

Thanx

 

[Mick Murphy]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx

Have a read of the above link re Vista File and Printer Sharing.

Permissions/Share info is there as well.

If using Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro I.S., make sure file and printer
sharing is enabled in THEIR firewall.

1st thing to do is make sure that the Workgroup Name of ALL the computers is
the SAME.

In Vista Network and Sharing:

Network Discovery: ON (So it can see the other computers)

Network set to Private (Public is for hotspots, airports, etc)

File Sharing: ON

Public Folder Sharing: ON (Vista’s Public Folder is the same as XP’s Shared
Docs)

Password Protected: OFF (unless you want to set up identical usernames and
passwords on ALL computers in your Network) If you have it ON, you will be
asked for a username and password when you try to access a Vista computer
from an XP computer.

Also, run the XP’s Home Network File and Printer Sharing Wizard to include
Vista in your “New†Network, even if you had an XP Network set up prior to
adding a Vista computer to it.

 

[LesleyO]

Hi all. Before I wrote this post I did try and solve the problem myself
on the Internet, but I read such a wide assortment of fixes I figured I
would go the Newsgroup route before I tried to fix my problem.

My problem is what many of you have experienced already. I have a small 3
computer network in my office. All 3 were running XP. One of them died
and I got a new computer running Vista (this OS is what NOBODY needed.) I
seemed to have networked the new computer. My other XP's see the computer
and sees the shared C drive, but when I try and open up Vista's C drive
from one of the XP's I get (you all know what I'm going to say):

"\Dre-pc\c is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
network resource.. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions. Access is denied."

A giant No-prize to any of you who can tell me what to do to allow me
access to my Vista's C drive.

Make mine Marvel.

Thanx

Plus, the workgroup name must be identical for all the computers involved,
and the default workgroup name for the XP and Vista workgroups is not the
same. I found that out when I set up my own three-computer network (two XP,
one Vista). I changed the two XPs to Vista's default and now all's well.
LesleyO

 

[Malke]

Hi all. Before I wrote this post I did try and solve the problem myself
on the Internet, but I read such a wide assortment of fixes I figured I
would go the Newsgroup route before I tried to fix my problem.

My problem is what many of you have experienced already. I have a small 3
computer network in my office. All 3 were running XP. One of them died
and
I got a new computer running Vista (this OS is what NOBODY needed.) I
seemed to have networked the new computer. My other XP's see the computer
and sees the shared C drive, but when I try and open up Vista's C drive
from one of the XP's I get (you all know what I'm going to say):

"\Dre-pc\c is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this
network resource.. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if
you have access permissions. Access is denied."

A giant No-prize to any of you who can tell me what to do to allow me
access to my Vista's C drive.

Assuming that you've got the network file sharing set up correctly, you need
to do some additional work if you want to share the root of C:\, which is a
protected resource in Vista.

*****
From Michael Bell (MS): When you share out the root of a drive in Vista, the
UI only allows this through the advanced sharing option. When the advanced
sharing option is used it only sets the share permissions. The actual
permissions on a file share are a combination of Folder and Share
permissions. In Vista the everyone group doesn not have permissions so
when you connect without a password the system you can see the folders but
not access them or possibly connect to the share but fail to open it.

1. Open Computer
2. Right click on the shared drive and select properties from the context
menu
3. Select the Security Tab in the displayed properties sheet.

If you are connecting to the computer with no password then you are
connecting with the guest account. In order to access the files on the
drive, the everyone group needs to have access set here.
*****

If after you've done the above you are still having problems, please post
back.

Malke