Need Network GURU help! (again)

[ryanbatc]

Uuuuuugh... Why am I networking retarded?

I have two PC's connected to my router. My Vista x64 computer has an IP of 192.168.1.3

The other box, with WinXP x86 is 192.168.1.5

Is this a problem? I'm trying to get them to talk to each other... no joy for certain folders.

For example. I can share my Vista folder, my c:\data folder, and the other WinXP can see and view all my data documents fine. But when I try to share my C:\...Microsoft Flight Simulator X on the Vista box the XP box cannot see it...

What the deuce???

ARGGH! I'm trying to get this nice little program to work: Synergy+ - it's essentially a software version of a KVM hardware.

What am I doing wrong?

edit: Here's a screenie of my network map... if it helps... and I've been reading this article but nothing has helped:
File and Printer Sharing in Windows Vista



As yet another edit I'd like to add that by default, when I right click a folder that is already shared (and actually working aka the WinXP box can see the Vista box) I get this to come up vs the 2nd picture, (attempting to share but the WinXP box cannot see these files, and I receive the usual "access denied" message)

[Qicmee]

I'm not the guru you're looking for (more of a grue).

Have you tried this yet? It has solved a lot of XP-Vista access problems (ripped from the Internet).

"Although the permissions were set to "everyone" you also have to go to the security tab, click edit, click add, type "everyone" in the box, click apply and that should fix the problem everyone seems to be having hopefully."

[DougBob]

You're not doing anything wrong. I believe if I remember correctly your going to have to back down some of the network connection requirements for the Vista box.

I'll look then up and see what I can find, right off I would say digital signing on network connections, but I'll have to find the exact names in the policies.

[ryanbatc]

I'm not the guru you're looking for (more of a grue).

Have you tried this yet? It has solved a lot of XP-Vista access problems (ripped from the Internet).

"Although the permissions were set to "everyone" you also have to go to the security tab, click edit, click add, type "everyone" in the box, click apply and that should fix the problem everyone seems to be having hopefully."

LOL this is the same page I found while googling a search about "program files sharing vista"
Vista/XP file sharing problem.

Long story short it's ALL WORKING GREAT NOW!!!

FU VISTA!! lol!

[mapes]

Did you get synergy running? If you need help let me know I use it a ton at work to switch between my Linux and Windows systems with the monitors side by side. Very cool app although I have some oddities like cut and paste only works one way and some other Ubuntu specific things. Overall it does work great but, every so often I have to use the force reconnect or force reload config

[mapes]

I'm not the guru you're looking for (more of a grue).

Nope your a dork! or should I say Zork! Have you ever heard of MC Frontalot tech rap or nerd hop or whatever. Some of its kinda funny "Secrets from the Future" and "Goth Girls" are my favs but, "It's Pitch Dark" is also great...heres the lyrics

You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
If this predicament seems particularly cruel,
consider whose fault it could be:
not a torch or a match in your inventory.

It got narrated at you in the second person.
Every time you booted up, it seemed you got another version
of your life told to you by a status line blinking,
the impossible people you could be without thinking
yourself insane of personality problems,
with a mop on a drop ship or trying to stab a goblin.
That don?t play in public life. You get arrested,
psychoactive medication daily in your big intestine
and attesting that the voices in your head
said the dwarf shot first, embedded arrow then you bled.
But doctors with needles posit repeatedly
that you knocked down that midget in the park unneededly.
This has seeded the idea that you should
never venture from the house, never get misunderstood
by the non-player characters inhabiting Earth,
none of whom are too concerned about Nord & Bert,
not one of whom ever aimed a fish around the room,
trying to get it in the ear canal because doom
beset the last planet they were on, or near
the verge of a set of poetics they wouldn?t hear.
Never peered at the clues with invisible ink.
No SM goddesses ever gave them pause to think.
Never piloted six robots, each distinct.
Don?t matter how many 2-liters they drink,
they?re not gonna follow what you?re saying at all.
They impugn and appall in the scope of their gall,
as you hide in your room in disgust with the lights turned out.
Turn ?em on in a turn. Leave ?em off for now.

You read a pamphlet from a mailbox that urges low cunning,
offers cursor and prompt: type >run and you?re running,
and parses what you tell it, pronouns intact,
abbreviations if you need ?em (better keep it gramat.).
Better punctuate your sentences and never redact
the name of anything ambiguous. You?re about to get asked,
do you mean the red one, the round one, the crooked, or the blue?
Better keep that in your pocket, don?t know yet what it could do.
Could be the spray for the grue; you?re gonna need it if it is ?
a situation that reloads, restarts, or quits.
Wonder how many points out of how many points
you?ve got to get before you?re done. Endeavor then to rejoice,
when you wish more ardently, identities shed,
for continuance, the rhyme forever voyaging. Fled
from all lights and colors, from all smells and sound:
just the lyric on the monochrome display and you?re proud
to make another verse appear by solving riddles.
If you didn?t have to sleep, you know you?d never seek acquittal.
You?d be ever in the middle and the midst of quest.
If it weren?t for >don the gown. you?d never get dressed.
In your underwear typing, just like Front,
keyboard attached up to my fingers ? wrists bear the brunt ?
as I seek to do stunts simply through their descriptions.
I think I went once to some sands that were Egyptian.
And I retain plane tickets, snapshots, receipts,
yet I stand unconvinced that this has happened to me.
I wouldn?t want to misremember or get confused.
Recall of crawling towards a pyramid appearing over dunes.
Recall of entering the thing and descending stairs.
Does it descend from there, adventure to nightmare?
Did I battle a snake? Was the treasure intact?
Or did the TRS-80 in my brain get hacked?
Thanks, Grampa, for buying it. Now my life?s ruined.
Twenty-two years later, head?s infested: got the grue in.
PLUGHing, XYZZYfying, trying to escape,
but I can?t ?cause I?m up and around and awake.

[Qicmee]

I'd never seen those lyrics before. Thanks!

"This has seeded the idea that you should
never venture from the house, never get misunderstood
by the non-player characters inhabiting Earth"

Zork was the first non-arcade game I ever played. It talked! It listened! It misunderstood! Crazy times.