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    Cant share Vista Drives & Folders

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by deepakvrao, Jan 14, 2008.

  1. deepakvrao

    deepakvrao Notebook Guru

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    I had a home wireless network with 1 Win XP desktop and 2 Win XP laptops. All was fine [and still is] with these three computers but when I got my new Vista laptop I'm having a problem.

    The Vista laptop easily got on the network and has good internet access etc and I can access the other computers drives [which are set for sharing]. While I can see the Vista laptop and its drives from the other computers when I click to open a drive I get an "access denied" message. I have tried every thing [file and folder sharing is turned on in all the comps]. Any suggestions?
     
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    surfasb Titles Shmm-itles

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    Right click the shares and make sure everyone has access to it under the permissions tabs. You can also make sure everyone has permission under the local security policies I think. I'm gonna take a peek and see were else.
     
    surfasb, Jan 14, 2008
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  3. Jusl3laze

    Jusl3laze Notebook Enthusiast

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    You also have to go to Network and Sharing Center, to get there just start-network. Then from network on the top is Network and Sharing Center.
    When your there enable file sharing and public folder sharing or anything that would apply to you.
     
    Jusl3laze, Jan 14, 2008
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    deepakvrao Notebook Guru

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    Done that. Network discovery, file sharing & Public folder sharing is on. Still does not work.
     
    deepakvrao, Jan 14, 2008
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    Jusl3laze Notebook Enthusiast

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    Weird.. Did you make sure you have sharing set to "everyone" ?
     
    Jusl3laze, Jan 14, 2008
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    deepakvrao Notebook Guru

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    Yup - Ihave sharing set to "everyone". This thing is driving me up the wall - as has networking often done - LOL
     
    deepakvrao, Jan 15, 2008
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    Haha, Yea I hate networking sometimes too. Vista makes it impossible, the only other thing I can think of at this point is setting the permission level in the securities tab to allow full control to everyone.
     
    Jusl3laze, Jan 15, 2008
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    Been there - done that too :-(
     
    deepakvrao, Jan 15, 2008
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    deepakvrao Notebook Guru

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    This worked:

    http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?p=3453518

    I know you guys had suggested it and I thought that I had done it but I checked and saw it was not done.

    Now while I can see the drive and open it, the vista comp does not show under 'view workgroup computers' - go figure.
     
    deepakvrao, Jan 15, 2008
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Have you confirmed it's in the same work group? def is different.
     
    blue68f100, Jan 16, 2008
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  11. deepakvrao

    deepakvrao Notebook Guru

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    Rebooted all and all is great - for now at least.
     
    deepakvrao, Jan 16, 2008
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