ONLY Vista and 2008 machine can access default share (c$) of a vista machine
I have a Vista machine which opens default share c$, I can access it from another Vista box and windows 2008 box,but when I type \\machine\c$ from a Windows 2003 machine, no matter what user name and password I inputed, it cannot log me in. I tested on serveral machines, but it didn't work. Is there anything that I need to configure for enablingaccessing the default share of vista from a windows 2003 box?Thanks,Michael
March 30th, 2009 6:24am

Hi, Thank you for posting. May I know it there are any error messages when you failed to access the share? If so, please capture a screenshot on this for our further research: Capture a screenshot ============== 1) Press the Print Screen key (PrtScn) on your keyboard. 2) Click the "Start" menu, type "mspaint" in the Search Bar and Press Enter. 3) In the Paint program, click the "Edit" menu, click "Paste", click the "File" menu, and click "Save". 4) The "Save As" dialogue box will appear. Type a file name in the "File name:" box, for example: "screenshot". 5) Make sure "JPEG (*.JPG;*.JPEG;*.JPE;*.JFIF)" is selected in the "Save as type" box, click Desktop on the left pane and then click "Save". Please use Windows Live SkyDrive (http://www.skydrive.live.com/) to upload the file and share its URL with us. At this time, please try the following: 1. Check if the Windows 2003 computer can access other share folders on the Windows Vista computer. 2. Please ensure that you are using the administrator account on the Windows 2003 computer when accessing the share. Meanwhile, I would like to share the following document for your reference: File and Printer Sharing in Windows Vista http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx Please note the section Administrative Shares and Sharing the Root of a Drive. Hope this helps. Thanks.Nicholas Li - MSFT
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