Re: Why is Vista so snooty?

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"Opinicus" <gezgin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:d_WdnUYeiuuD02TUnZ2dnUVZ8u6dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I have my wife's and my own desktops (both XP Home) and my laptop (Vista Home Premium) all connected to the same ADSL modem. I want to set permissions so that I can access and do what I want with any file on any machine from any other machine.

On the XP machines this was a breeze. I can access either machine from any other machine and do whatever I want. But on the Vista machine, I'm prevented from doing this. The only files on the Vista machine that I can access from the XP machines are in the "Public" folder. I can't access the Vista machine's root menu or even the files in my own folder from the XP machines. When I try, I get this complaint:

<quote>
\\T-pc\rlb 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.
</quote>

"T-pc" is the name of the name of the laptop in the "Workgroup" and "rlb" is my folder.

I'm the administrator, so where do I go from here? How do I make Vista let the other machines access my files?



Vista is more secure than XP.
Have you SHARED the folders you want to access?
Have you set up a User account (with password) that is identical to the User on the other machine?
Why would you want to share the root of the C drive anyway? You can't run programs remotely like that or do anything else productive with the root share.

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