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Andrew
Dear Group,
Sorry if this has already been asked, unfortunately I am using outlook
express/mail to view this message board. I want to share files with my XP
box the way that I used to when both boxes were XP. I could share a whole
drive/partition and then access it via \\PC\DRIVE and with Vista I cant seem
to do that.
I have Vista RC2 installed on PC1 and XP Pro installed on PC2. I made the
network private to give me less restrictions. Here are my settings in the
network and security screen:
Network Discovery: ON
File Sharing: ON
Public Folder Sharing: ON (open change and create)
Printer Sharing: ON
Password protected sharing: OFF
Media Sharing: OFF
On PC1, I go to my 2nd hard drive in my computer (D in Windows Explorer,
right click and go to share, then Advanced Sharing. I give it a name of
DRIVE2 and then click ok. I go to PC2 and type \\PC1\DRIVE2 and it says that
\\PC1\DRIVE2 is not accessible. If I created a folder called TEST inside of
DRIVE2, share it in the same way, I can easily go to PC2 and type in
\\PC1\DRIVE2\TEST and it will bring up the folder. This tells me that I am
unable to share my whole partition/drive. Anyone know how to get around this
definitively?
Thanks
Andrew
Sorry if this has already been asked, unfortunately I am using outlook
express/mail to view this message board. I want to share files with my XP
box the way that I used to when both boxes were XP. I could share a whole
drive/partition and then access it via \\PC\DRIVE and with Vista I cant seem
to do that.
I have Vista RC2 installed on PC1 and XP Pro installed on PC2. I made the
network private to give me less restrictions. Here are my settings in the
network and security screen:
Network Discovery: ON
File Sharing: ON
Public Folder Sharing: ON (open change and create)
Printer Sharing: ON
Password protected sharing: OFF
Media Sharing: OFF
On PC1, I go to my 2nd hard drive in my computer (D in Windows Explorer,
right click and go to share, then Advanced Sharing. I give it a name of
DRIVE2 and then click ok. I go to PC2 and type \\PC1\DRIVE2 and it says that
\\PC1\DRIVE2 is not accessible. If I created a folder called TEST inside of
DRIVE2, share it in the same way, I can easily go to PC2 and type in
\\PC1\DRIVE2\TEST and it will bring up the folder. This tells me that I am
unable to share my whole partition/drive. Anyone know how to get around this
definitively?
Thanks
Andrew