Odd XP Vista Network Issue

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I went through a lot of the problems I have seen here where the XP and Vista
computers can't see each other and such. Downloaded all the patches and set
all the permissions on both machines. Have full access XP machine to Vista.
Where my problem is, when I do discovery from the Vista machine, it detects
the XP machine as a "Media Device". I can play all of my music files on my
Vista system that are on the XP system, but I am unable to access any other
files on the XP system. I have the full C drive set as shared, but only the
media files show up across the network. Anyone else encounter this problem
and find a solution?
 
You may want to use icacls utility to check the permissions on the C drive.

Vista Permission IssuesPost Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:14 am Post subject:
How to: check permissions using Vista icacls command, Reply with quote . ...
www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistapermission.htm

How to use icacls
http://msvistahowto.googlepages.com/


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Not having a problem accessing the Vista computer from XP it is the other way
around, the XP computer is only detected as a "Media Device"
 
I went through a lot of the problems I have seen here where the XP and Vista
computers can't see each other and such. Downloaded all the patches and set
all the permissions on both machines. Have full access XP machine to Vista.
Where my problem is, when I do discovery from the Vista machine, it detects
the XP machine as a "Media Device". I can play all of my music files on my
Vista system that are on the XP system, but I am unable to access any other
files on the XP system. I have the full C drive set as shared, but only the
media files show up across the network. Anyone else encounter this problem
and find a solution?
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Michael,

Is the XP computer XP Home, XP Pro with Simple File Sharing, XP Pro with
Advanced File Sharing and Guest access, or XP Pro with Advanced File Sharing and
non-Guest access?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html

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