Making progress on 'shareing'

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FireBrick

From my lan XP machine I can now share with:
\\media\d
\\media\e
\\media\f
\\media\k

I still cannot share files with Vista Machine:
\\MEDIA\Bill
\\Media\c
\\MEDIA\Windows Media Player

In XP My Network Places
I see these Vista places exactly as I've written them.

Does it matter that some are in upper case and others lower?
Device Manager lists the computer name in all upper case
System Properties->Properties shows: Full computer name Media
and the Workgroup: WORKGROUP
(I use the same workgroup name on all of my home lan computers)

Network & sharing Center shows the WORKGROUP (Private network)

Sharing and Discovery
shows all on except Password protected sharing which if off


so there is only one issue left
how do I enable C: to be fully permissions shared with my other lan
computers
From the Vista I can write/read/change anything on the XP machine
From the XP machine I can only access files on the drives as above with
\\media\ as the name

what little point am I missing

One other teeny question.
Is there no 'My Documents' in Vista anymore???


please and thank you
 
Hi Firebrick,

To your Networking question:

Assuming that all of your Network and Sharing variables are correct and that
the XP home network is set-up properly, then try this: Choose Folder or disk
that you want to share, right click > Share > Advanced Sharing > Permissions
choose Everyone. For some folders or files you may get the File Sharing
Click to expand...
wizard. Choose people to share with: Everyone.

There is no more My Documents on Vista. No My Anything although if you use
some legacy (old) software it may display My ** as a place to Save documents.
Also, if you Unhide Protected System Files using Folder options you may see
“ghosts†of My ** folders. Ignore those.


Hope this helps.
 
Thank you Oscar
But I should have said that I had 'Everyone' set as permissions for Drive C:
already.

As far as I can tell
Every setting for C: is set the same as the D:, E:, etc other drives.
Only C: is restricted from other computers.
 
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