Re: how do you share root of drive?

AMDX2 wrote:

Simple sharing was on on one pc and i totally thought I disabled that.
guuess not. to auto log in a user i didn't know of right now since
I've not done that in so long I've totally forgotten. Right now one pc
is vista beta 2 and the other is xp pro. on the pc that has vista beta
2 is also xp pro on another hard drive, so i can dual boot. I think i
fixed it by disable simple sharing and re sharing drives and doing the
new share plus clicking permissions to give everyone full access. i
just forgot about the simple sharing.

i wasn't agitated or anything, just thought the multiple user thing is
stupid since I'm the only user and this has worked always before
without me having to create a user since xp says joe already has
access which is always my user account in xp. but in the past I've
always stopped simple sharing.

I've re did the sharing now on my xp pc so I'm going to try it and
report back what happens.

So, now we find out that 1) you had a setting wrong; and 2) one of the
machines is using a beta operating system. This does not represent
"stupid ass sharing" on the part of the operating systems involved.

For help with the *beta* operating system Vista, post in one of the
newsgroups set up for it. There are public newsgroups hosted on
msnews.microsoft.com for the new *beta* OS. If you continue to have
difficulties sharing between an XP machine and a Vista machine, use the
Vista newsgroups to explore the solutions and/or workarounds.

Windows XP (and Vista) are modern multi-user operating systems that are
scalable, just like all other modern operating systems available today
such as OSX, Linux, and Unix.

Malke
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