The Windows problem I've never figured out
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:49 pm
how do you share files and folders the "correct" way?
The only way I have ever gotten this to work is through a hack I learned on Windows XP.
This is what I do when sharing between two machines A & B:
1 - create administrator accounts on machines A and B with the identical user name and password
2 - go to folder options for both machines and under view turn off simple file sharing
That's it.
Access for any file/folder from either machine is attained like this:
To access file "blah.txt" on machine As C drive where machine A is named "Alpha"
from machine Bs start->run: \\Alpha\c$\blah.txt
HOW oh HOW do you get it to work on Vista?
The simple file sharing checkbox is now replaced by Use Sharing Wizard
Vista can access XP files but XP cannot access Vista files
The usual tutorials about sharing files do not work by setting permissions and proper sharing settings from everything I have tried it always ends up the same.
I have no firewall or windows defendery thing or whatever but something is preventing incoming access IMMEDIATELY it doesn't even think about it.
ALSO, when you do the \\machine\c$ access it will bring up a user/pass dialog that fails when the correct user and password are used that exist on both machines.
Both machines are using the same workgroup and on private networks.
The only thing I can think of is there is something preventing access but I don't know what it could be.
Anyone know how to access files from an XP machine to a Vista machine? I am amazed it is that difficult.
The only way I have ever gotten this to work is through a hack I learned on Windows XP.
This is what I do when sharing between two machines A & B:
1 - create administrator accounts on machines A and B with the identical user name and password
2 - go to folder options for both machines and under view turn off simple file sharing
That's it.
Access for any file/folder from either machine is attained like this:
To access file "blah.txt" on machine As C drive where machine A is named "Alpha"
from machine Bs start->run: \\Alpha\c$\blah.txt
HOW oh HOW do you get it to work on Vista?
The simple file sharing checkbox is now replaced by Use Sharing Wizard
Vista can access XP files but XP cannot access Vista files
The usual tutorials about sharing files do not work by setting permissions and proper sharing settings from everything I have tried it always ends up the same.
I have no firewall or windows defendery thing or whatever but something is preventing incoming access IMMEDIATELY it doesn't even think about it.
ALSO, when you do the \\machine\c$ access it will bring up a user/pass dialog that fails when the correct user and password are used that exist on both machines.
Both machines are using the same workgroup and on private networks.
The only thing I can think of is there is something preventing access but I don't know what it could be.
Anyone know how to access files from an XP machine to a Vista machine? I am amazed it is that difficult.