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

[Alan Mitchell]

Yes. That was one of the first things I checked, although I did notice that Vista insisted on all upper case while the XP is mixed case. But since workgroup is supposedly case independent, and the Vista shows up under the workgroup name, that doesn't seem to be the problem here. But good catch. Sometimes workgroup is a problem.

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From: "H Davis" <hdavis1 at gmail.com>
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Sent: 4/18/08 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Accessin a Vista Home Premium machine from XP Pro SR2

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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