Sharing Between Vista and XP Pro

[ryanbatc]

READY TO PULL MY HAIR OUT!!!

ARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!

Ok, so I'm trying to setup a program which runs on my smaller PC (runs XP Pro x86) which can connect to my main gaming rig (runs Vista x64), from now on I'm calling the small one "small" and my main rig "main."

I've gone through all the usual steps on both systems:

1) Firewall off
2) uac off on main
3) admin accounts on both system
4) simple sharing disabled on small
5) Both are connected to wired router, both IP's are 192.168.1.x (ie x=5 for small and 3 for main)

6)both are under WORKGROUP

And the really fricken annoying this is: some folders and files share no problems!!! ARGGH! My printer is connected to main and it shares with small and also my wife's laptop - zero issues....

I tried accessing test files from small on main - no joy. I tried the reverse - no joy. On small I get the usual annoying "you might not have permission" blah blah blah. On main "Windows cannot access...check the spelling of the name..."

Any guru's out there??? How can small see random files on main but main cannot access any files on small (except printer which is connected to main)

HELP??

[Sirex]

try this on all pc's
admin tools > local security policy > local policies > security options.

Network access: Sharing and security model for local accounts - Classic
This will require all passwords and usernames to match on all pc's
This is not an issue for us here as well I do all the setting up of new pcs.

Its possibly not the solution, but it might help somewhat, esp with the security model of windows.

Look for anything else on the vista PC that might not allow things to pass thru.
Esp that points to the 'encryption', 'protocol' and 'encoding' network stuff.

Best way is to try match as close as possible, even thou XP's local sec was very open,
it did have some settings right which they changed.

[ryanbatc]

It was already set to local control...

A lot of the other options are foreign language to me.... networking isn't my strong point in the computing world...

I don't understand why it would work for certain folders but not for others...

[mapes]

Can you right click on a folder and share it? If yes than from the other machine start>run

type in

\\sharingmachinesIP\foldersharename

When the dialog for user authentication comes up type in

TARGETMACHINESNAME\auseronthetargetmachine in the username box and the proper password. Try that.

[DougBob]

ryanbatc, check out this writeup I did for XP and see if you have the irqstacksize error I found in my message viewer. If you do research at technet.microsoft.com and try the registry tweak.

Doug Bob's PC Info: Having problems accessing that shared filesystem on your XP Home PC. Keep getting "don't have permission" error.

[ryanbatc]

Can you right click on a folder and share it? If yes than from the other machine start>run

type in

\\sharingmachinesIP\foldersharename

When the dialog for user authentication comes up type in

TARGETMACHINESNAME\auseronthetargetmachine in the username box and the proper password. Try that.

access denied... yet I can ping each computer from the other...

This is what I've done so far:

1) Disable simple sharing in XP
2) both systems are on the workgroup domain
3) Guest acct is on on both
4) I even made another account on each system named the same as the other system (ie on server I created an account that has the same name as the one I use on my main rig and vice versa)

5) REG key set to 0 under LSA/restrictannonymous per MS kb article
6) Firewall is off on both
7) all permissions set to full control on both
I took control of all files/folders on both

Here's the message on vista:

[ryanbatc]

ryanbatc, check out this writeup I did for XP and see if you have the irqstacksize error I found in my message viewer. If you do research at technet.microsoft.com and try the registry tweak.

Doug Bob's PC Info: Having problems accessing that shared filesystem on your XP Home PC. Keep getting "don't have permission" error.

I tried to run that event view: "Event log service is unavailable. verify service is running"

[DougBob]

Uh oh.

[mapes]

Dude you said both are in the WORKGROUP Domain? They should both be in the workgroup called WORKGROUP. Secondly don't use the name of the machine in \\ put the ip

[ryanbatc]

Yes they are both in WORKGROUP.

I have given up on this.... it won't work lol...

[mapes]

Yes they are both in WORKGROUP.

I have given up on this.... it won't work lol...

Sorry to hear about your probs. I can tell you it works. As I work on a producte where we've reverse engineered the MS SMB file sharing protocol