TSGL: Accessin a Vista Home Premium machine from XP Pro SR2

[H Davis]

Alan,

I'm definitely no expert here but my one experience with a mixed XP, 
Vista network had the same problem because the default work group names 
were different and I didn't notice that.

HTH

H Davis

Alan Mitchell wrote:
>  
> A ministry I am helping support has a peer-to-peer network with 6 client
> stations and a work group server which provides central storage and backup
> of all of the workstations. All machines on the network have been running XP
> Pro sr2 until last week. Due to a power supply taking out the motherboard of
> an older system, I decided to upgrade the station to a dual processor, 3GB,
> etc system running Vista Home Premium. Ever since I installed the Vista
> client station, I have not been able to access any of its files (other than
> Public) from any of the XP machines. All of the XP machines can, of course,
> still see each other, can still share files, can still function as one
> entity as they always have. Setting up the network originally with XP and
> '98 machines was a snap compared to trying to insert a Vista Home Premium
> client.
>
> In researching the issue, one recommendation I was given was to set up a
> common "user" on both the Vista and the workgroup server and use the same
> password for each. On both of the systems I set up new users called
> BackupAdmin with the same password and gave each full administrative
> privileges. Then I went into the Vista system, logged on as the user and set
> up sharing of the appropriate folder structures to "Everyone" and gave
> co-ownership of the folders to the new user (BackupAdmin). It is interesting
> that when I tried to select the BackupAdmin on the sharing list, I was told
> it was invalid and did not exist on the Vista system even though it WAS on
> the drop-down list of "users". So I had to revert to "Everyone", which I had
> been advised would work.
>
> When I used Windows Explorer to view the Vista client from the server it
> does display the folders but continues to block my attempts to display the
> files in the folders, hence my backup continues to fail with the "unable to
> access" message.
>
> My next attempt was to log onto the server with the user's id and password,
> and was then able to display the contents of the files and folders on the
> Vista client. While I could use that access for a while, what am I going to
> do when I install the second Vista client with a different user? I can only
> run the backup application from one server user at a time, and the logistic
> nightmare of trying to make sure the scheduling for one application running
> as different users boggles my mind.
>
> Does anyone have experience with accessing a Vista Home Premium client from
> multiple peer-to-peer clients running XP Pro? If so, have you got any
> recommendations I can try to help resolve this conundrum.
>
> Thanks,
> Alan Mitchell
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