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

[Russell W. Coover]

Are the workgroup names the same? XP and Vista use different default
workgroups.

Russ Coover

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From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Alan Mitchell
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 10:16 AM
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Subject: TSGL: Accessin a Vista Home Premium machine from XP Pro SR2

 
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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