Backup from Vista to XP Home?

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All I want to do is file backup from a Vista home premium machine to an XP
home machine via a simple home network I can find the drive on the network,
it then asks for a password, The XP machine is set up without any passwords,
I type in an arbitary one and get a not unexpected error no mapping etc...
As a PC pleb can anyone post a step by step instruction as to how to set up
back up from vista to XP home Please!
 
RichMc said:
All I want to do is file backup from a Vista home premium machine to an XP
home machine via a simple home network I can find the drive on the network,
it then asks for a password, The XP machine is set up without any passwords,
I type in an arbitary one and get a not unexpected error no mapping etc...
As a PC pleb can anyone post a step by step instruction as to how to set up
back up from vista to XP home Please!
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Create identical user accounts with passwords on both machines (or
simply assign an identical password on both machines if you have the
same user account name already). You can set up both machines to
automatically log in for convenience with control userpasswords 2
afterwards:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm


Malke
 
Unfortunately, because of feature limitations in XP Home, it cannot be used
as the target of a backup.

Quoth the people who do backup,
"A network share on a computer running Windows XP Home Edition is not
supported as a backup location because this edition does not support setting
permissions on the shares, nor does it support authenticating as a specific
account over the network."

For more info, see
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/09/27/458871.aspx.
 
WHY AM I NOT SUPRISED looks like another attempt by the Gates mafia to force
all my machines to Vista, yes its another downgrade feature of vista, not to
backup to XP home why dont microsoft go from WOW to F***ED for there slogan?
Wish I never bought the bunch of C**P!
 
The backups are created and ACLed to the account of the user you specify.
The recommendation is that this be a dedicated backup user to limit access
to the files further, though that's not required. In XP Home, the security
model is very loose -- a writable shared file is completely open to anyone
with network connectivity to that computer. That's not a good place to put
a backup; either put it somewhere that's not shared or somewhere that can
enforce permissions. We similarly don't support Samba v2 for security
reasons, even though that makes backup incompatible with a number of older
NAS devices -- but we do support Samba v3, because it offers sufficient
security. Even XP Pro doesn't have good security on shares by default, but
it can be configured to do so, and thus is supported once configured.

This is not an attempt to force you into an upgrade; it's an attempt not to
compound a previous mistake by continuing to do the wrong thing simply
because we did it before. I agree that it's frustrating, but the backup
team made the decision and I'm not at all convinced they were wrong. (Even
if I were, that's not my area, so convincing me doesn't buy you much.)
 
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