sharing vista drive over network

[Big Daddy]

Hi,

I have vista on my main pc and xp on others. I have shared all my drives inc my C drive which is my vista drive. the permissions have been set and checked.

I can not access the vista drive from the other pcs on my network. both wireless and cable. I can access the other 2 hdds I have in my main pc.

Any ideas?

thank you

[power]

any av or firwalls installed, if so which one's?

[RoNiNSan]

Did you allow file sharing in the network and sharing center

[Big Daddy]

I have got windows firewall and avg AV running.

yes file sharing is allowed password is off, print sharing is on. as I said, I can access my other 2 hdds from the xp machines. but just can not access the vista drive.


so to transfer files I have to move them from C drive to D drive then get what I need on the xp machines.

[Fishmaster]

Check to make sure that the security permissions include the NETWORK user and that it has full access, for some reason just simply adding it doesn't seem to work and you have to go a bit deeper to get it added.

[Big Daddy]

Originally Posted by Fishmaster

Check to make sure that the security permissions include the NETWORK user and that it has full access, for some reason just simply adding it doesn't seem to work and you have to go a bit deeper to get it added.

thanks for the post. but I have already done that for the vista drive. didnt have to for the other 2 hdds. Still didnt work for the vista drive.

cheers

[exodus_68]

Are you able to access the system shares of the Vista machine?
eg. \\<machine_name>\c$

[Big Daddy]

when i go to my network places on the xp machines, the vista drive comes up but won't let me access the drive.

[exodus_68]

Does it prompt for a username and password?

[Big Daddy]

no password protection is turned off.

all it comes up and does is try to access the vista drive and then come back with the error you are not authorised to access this drive. (or something like that, will check tomorrow for the exact error)


any other ideas.

thank you

[exodus_68]

Yeah I have another idea for you
I was only able to get sharing to work properly for Vista with Password protection ON and the machine also password protected. I just had a browse through the M$ Vista community site and my suspicion was confirmed. A person on there described the same problem you had:

Mike C wrote:
> I have read through all the items I could find on here, but none of
> the items worked or were applicable.
>
> I have 2 computers networked that can see each other. One is Vista the
> other XP. I have no problem accessing XP shares from the Vista
> machine. When I try to access shares on the Vista machine from XP, I
> can't. When I click on the workgroup, I see the machine. When I
> double click it, it asks for a username and password. If I type the
> the only username on the Vista machine (which has no password set), it
> fails. It seems with having password protected sharing OFF, I
> shouldn't get a prompt.
>
> My setup:
>
> On Vista
> -Network discovery ON
> -File sharing ON
> -Password protected sharing OFF
> -Public sharing OFF
> -C drive is shared to Everyone

Turn the password-protected sharing ON and create a user
account/password on the Vista machine that matches the one on the XP box.

If you wish the machine to boot directly to the Desktop (into one
particular user's account) for convenience, you can do this. The
instructions at this link work for both XP and Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm


Malke

[Big Daddy]

thanks for that.

seems to be a pain just to access 1 hard drive.

Will give it a go to see if it works

cheers