have two machines running vista home (one 32 and one 64bit) I have attempted everything to get these fools to share, but achived next to nothing. Both machines see each other and the shared folders, and I have sharing of the public folder, but any other folder i access over the network gets slapped with a 0x80070005 access denied. I have both machines on private network setting, same workgroup, without password protected file sharing. Neither of the machines have an account password either. What am i doing wrong?

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Unless there is some kind of sync error to do with the compatibility between 32bit +64bit? i say google, or maybe microsoft support?

Welcome to Vista and its annoyances. Vista is filled to the brim with things that are designed to protect you from yourself. You probably need to move anything that you want to share into the public folder. Otherwise, Vista will think that that its something not to be shared and it will surround that thing with all kinds of safeguards. Someone else may know how to share folders, but so far, the only way I have found is to put stuff I want to share into the public folder.

What happened to good old xp, I click share, and then its shared. Vista I click share, vista says "no no"

Make sure you turn on "Public File Sharing" in your settings, not just file sharing. If you don't have public file sharing turned on you will have to create user accounts for both computers on one another. You should also check your NTFS permissions, make sure that everyone has Read access.

When I go home I'll check. I have one Vista64 desktop and one XP laptop via a wireless router. I don't remember having any problems sharing files.

In the future, Windows will require passwords on all user accounts if you want to access account documents across a share (even Windows Home Server requires that). It's just easier to always use Public, considering that's what it was made for.

I had to tinker with the settings before I could share on Vista but it wasn't anything out of the normal. Relax a bit then try and take a fresh new look at it. That's what I did. My wife is on Vista 32 and I'm on 64.

whats funny is this happened to me too except it only happens on my external drives, cant get them to share with other pcs for the life of me. i just gave up and switched all my storage to an xp computer. Also its not just a setting change i literally have EVERYTHING turned on for file sharing and have given access to everyone. It sees the computer but none of the folders its sharing.

Reminds me of an expression, "a Feature is a Bug that has been documented."

Do you have account passwords on the vista and xp PC's? I've tried everything but putting in passwords...

I actually had to create a password on my main computer to get Peachtree to connect over the network.

Vista has many annoying features this is one of many. My personal favorite and the one I turn off immediately is "Windows needs your permission."

I had to do the same to ssh in Cent OS 4.5 in my cluster. Every time I tried to log into my compute nodes with an account that was without a password I always got kicked out. Whenever I tried to copy files to the nodes. same thing.... A minor inconvenience at most, but that is what seems to make that distro happy.

Silly idea for security espeically when everything is in a locked computer lab and is not networked. Even if someone got in the account is so limited they wouldn't be able to do anything. They couldn't even run X as it causes the compute nodes to crash lol.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/win [...] ows-vista/
That link gives a few ideas that may help. In fact, here's the google page: