Getting Vista and XP to talk together on a home network
I have a desktop running Vista and a small home network. I can get the Vista machine to see and change stuff on the other machines - (XP boxes), but from the XP's to the Vista box I can only see the drives but not access their folders... except for the Shared Folder. I've turned off the firewall and allowed as liberal permissions in the Vista network sharing center as I can. Oh, I'm running One Care on all the machines. All machines' netowrks are "Public."
August 21st, 2008 1:42am

Hello Mcomer, Try changing the network location type from Public to Private. Windows OneCare does include its own firewall so make sure you also have that configured properly. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923157 -- Eric Cross Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
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August 21st, 2008 4:42pm

I.d already done that. No change. Mike
August 24th, 2008 1:19am

Hi, Please understand that for computers running Windows Vista that are members of a workgroup, the administrative shares (e.g. C$) exist but are blocked for network access for security reasons. What does the drives stand for in sentence of your first post but from the XP's to the Vista box I can only see the drives but not access their folders? Are they the root drives shared on the Windows Vista computer? Do you mean that you can access to some share folders but not to the share root drives on the Windows Vista machine? If so, please let me know the error message when attempting to access the share drives.
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August 25th, 2008 11:37am

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