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

Sun Apr 20 03:19:19 EDT 2008

did you install the official Microsoft File Sharing Compatibilty patch for
use between XP and Vista?

On 19/04/2008, Alan Mitchell <alan_mitchell at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, I created an exact name and password on each system, but I still
> wasn't able to get access. Maybe I can convince him to "upgrade" to XP :-)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "The Computer Whisperer" <justin at whisperer.com.au>
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> Sent: 4/19/08 4:37 AM
> Subject: Re: TSGL: Accessin a Vista Home Premium machine from XP Pro SR2
>
> you might want to make sure the account you are using on each pc has the
> same text name on both machines. ie user1 or admin1 or whatever on both
> machines.
>
> Vista is a bit odd with it's security like that.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 19/04/2008, Alan Mitchell <alan_mitchell at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "H Davis" <hdavis1 at gmail.com>
> > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
> > 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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