Re: XP Pro -> Vista: You do not have access ... See administrator (was XP -> Vista: You do not have access ...)

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eBob.com wrote:


I really appreciate your continued help. PLEASE hang in there with me
because I have got to get this working.

Yes, but it would have been better to get *all* the information first in one
post instead of dragging it out in dribs and drabs.

I have a useid on both machines, "default", which is exactly that - the
seven letters "default". It's the userid I use most often on the XP Pro
machine.

The one id "default" is defined on both machines and has the same password
on both machines. In case it might make some difference the Vista machine
is Ultimate, 64-bit. And, while I am fully disclosing, it has an AMD
chip.

It makes no difference that one OS is 64-bit and the other is 32-bit. I
share files between machines running Vista, XP Pro, Mac OS X, and Linux.
The processor doesn't matter in networking either.

Also, I think that now I am getting a slightly different error message
than
originally. On the XP Pro machine when I click on "My Network Places" the
window which opens shows me the shared drive on the Vista machine,
"E-drive
on Gigavista64". When I double click on that, after a surprisingly long
time, 20 seconds - I timed it, I get this error message:

"\\GIGAVISTA64\E-drive 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.

Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at
this computer"

BTW, when I look at Properties/Sharing there is a button labled "Share
..."
which is greyed out. That's disconcerting but I think that in my original
research I learned that it's OK.

Are you trying to share the root of a drive in Vista? This is not considered
good security practice so the root of a drive is protected in Vista. To get
around this:

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 ***.

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.

1. You have a misconfigured firewall;

I haven't installed a firewall on the Vista machine. I use an old version
of ZoneAlarm on the XP Pro machine but shutting it down makes no
difference.

You should uninstall ZA according to their instructions.

1. Go into ZA Overview/Preferences and uncheck "Load Zone Alarm on Startup".
2. Reboot computer to remove Zone Alarm drivers from memory.
3. Temporarily shut down any other AV/security programs.
4. Click on Start >Programs > Zone Labs. RIGHT-click on Uninstall Zone Labs
Security, then select Properties. Under Target you will see the following
line (the actual drive may be different on your system):

"C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zauninstexe" - Change it to:
"C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zauninst.exe" /clean /rmlicense (add a
space and then the /clean). Click OK to save.
Say "Yes" when being prompted for the removal of all files and allow
TrueVector to shut down. Reboot.

Now start in Safe Mode and delete these files in the Windows Directory:

WINDOWS\ Internet Logs
Program Files\Zone Labs
WINDOWS\system32\ Zonelabs

Now reboot into Regular Mode.

2. And/or your security settings on the shared resource are incorrect.
Look
on the Security tab and make sure your users have read/write permissions.
You can add individual users (ex. if only Bob is allowed and not Jane) or
allow Everyone to read/write. Everyone means everyone with a user account
on the local machine, not everyone in the world.

I hadn't looked at the Security tab before and I wasn't sure what to do
there. Under "Group or user names:" it already had "Users
(GIGAVISTA64\Users)" and "default" is a defined userid on the machine.
But I added "Everyone" to "Group or user names:" and gave "Everyone" all
permissions except for "Full Control" and "Special Permissions". (I tried
to give it "Full Control" but then got "An error occurred while applying
security information to E:\$RECYCLE.BIN Access is denied". I hope I
haven't done any damage!)

What I wanted to do here, but couldn't, was to specifically add user
"default". But when I click on "Advanced Sharing ..." (on the Sharing tab
of Properties), and then click on Permissions, and then try to "Add ..."
to the "Group or user names:", the "Select Users or Groups" dialog only
knows
about location "GIGAVISTA64". (I.E. I click on the "Locations ..." button
and GIGAVISTA64 is the only entry in the list.) I expected to find
"VPR-MATRIX" in there. (That's the name of the XP Pro machine and it
shows
up in "Network". So the Vista machine does know about it.)

Sorry, you've totally lost me with the above. I don't know why you're having
such difficulties unless it's the root of a drive thing.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

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