File Sharing: CUSTOM ? Unable to share drives

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I am tyring to share my hard drives over my home network, but I don't get the
option via Right-Clicking it like I used to in Win XP.

In the Network & Sharing Center, my file sharing staus is "Custom". I
suspect this is why I can't share my hard drive, can anyone tell me what to
do next?

Thx in advance.
 
Hi.
Sharing files (or drives) across a home network between PCs running both XP
and Vista can be tricky. Please take a look at this article, which I think
does a nice job of walking people through how to configure Vista to make
sharing possible.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx

It sounds like you know what to do to make a hard drive shareable in XP.
But, just in case, here's an article that goes over the details.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/filesharing.mspx


Hope this helps. Please let me know how it works out.

Michael Stroh
User Assistance Writer
Microsoft Corp.
 
I've gone thru that tutorial with no resolve.

I was hoping for a more specific way to have File Sharing show a status of
'ON' as opposed to 'CUSTOM'.

Again, thx in advance for any help!
 
I have the same sharing problem between my XP Pro and Vista.
I created usernames on both XP Pro and Vista boxes.
From my XPPro i can see all files in the Public folder of the Vista box but
the Vista box only see my Shared document folder on my XP Pro box ONLY after
I restart the XP Pro box and FOR ONLY 10 or 15 seconds ( I pinged the XP Pro
box from the Vista box and got about 20 Replies and it went to Request timed
out).
I would appreciate anyone's feedback on what am I missing here?
Hank Nguyen.
 
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