I cannot write to remote folders exported from a vista machine. The remote machine is running vista 64 ultimate and my laptop is running windows 7 64 ultimate. I've to state, that I did not understand the sense of the wizard questions asking me, whether my network is in a office or in a home. I think I anwsered office, since I don't want to get any consumer level restrictions. Here is the output of cacls . Z:\ <Account Domain not found>F NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F BUILTIN\Administrators:F <Account Domain not found>(OI)(CI)(IO)F NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(IO)F BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(IO)F Here is the output of Z:\>copy con tmp.dat asd Access is denied. 0 file(s) copied. C:\Users\Peter>net use New connections will be remembered. There are no entries in the list. C:\Users\Peter>net use \\peterdell\peter /user:peterdell\peter System error 1219 has occurred. Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again. C:\Users\Peter>net use \\peterdell\peter /user:peter The command completed successfully. C:\Users\Peter>vi \\peter C:\Users\Peter>copy con \\peterdell\peter\tmp.dat Zx Access is denied. 0 file(s) copied. C:\Users\Peter>

Never mind -- the permissions attached to the share were set to readonly. When creating a share there is a second set of permissions. The final permissions are the most restrictive of both sets (I think).