It does this on both my vista machines – and I see postings about it with no solutions on the web.

If you have an answer please let me know.
Thanks
Jim

On the vista box restart the server service and the browser service and it will work for a while. I am still looking for fix.

Brad

When it’s asking who you want to share with you can select, “Jeff” or “user” or everyone which shares it between both user accounts. This way whether you’re logged in as Jeff or User you can access this file.

What file sharing does is allows other user accounts to access a file on your computer. For example, my coworkers can access a shared folder on my desktop by logging into the generic user account (user in this example) from their computers. So I’m logged in my computer as the Admin, “Jeff.” At the same time one or several of my coworkers are logged to my computer, using a user account that I created on my computer called “user”

If all of your computers have enabled “allow file sharing, and allowed network discovery,” you can click the network button (start menu) and select laptop and log in using the 2nd user account.

Assuming this is an office, or home office, here is what I would suggest doing:
1: Create a 2nd user account on the PC (not admin)
2: Create a new folder which will be your “network folder” that everyone will have access to.
3: Allow sharing on that folder, select share with everyone when it asks for your name. Allow at least three simultaneous users (or more if you want to add more later).
4: Make sure Network Discovery and file sharing are allowed on all 3 computers AND MAKE SURE YOUR NETWORK IS SECURE!!!!!
5: Each of the 2 PCs can right click on the start menu, click network, login using the PC’s second user name and password (what you created in step 1)
, and have access to the shared folder.

You’ll have to give the 2nd user name the permissions you want in step 3. For example, my coworkers all have read/write access which allows them to modify files. I’d take away write access if I wanted them only to see the files in my (our) shared folder.

Let me know if this helps. If this application isn’t relevant to your needs, let me know.

I just looked at one of my W2K laptops on my Vista and all the shared stuff’s right there before my very eyes!!!

Now, I may be old but I don’t think I’m senile (yet).

I’ve configured and checked until dawn, shut down all my anti-this anti-that stuff to no avail.

However, this DOES mean there’s light at the end of the tunnel somewhere.

Good luck out there.

Beginning with XP Microsoft switched from an open standard packet protocol to a propiertry (?) protocol that “…reduces the command from (hundreds) to only 19 …” and speeds up communications. All well and good and also bacwardly compatable as it can send replies in the old format too.

However, it cannot (ie has been made not to) issue requests in old format over the Microsoft Client For File And Print Sharing (and many other) utilities.

Soooo, other pre-XP computers on the network can ‘request’ and be granted access to public folders/printers etc (ie W2K can see/read/write to them) BUT Vista cannot do the same with pre-XP machines.

This means that you must cross their palms with silver, either by buying a Vista uprade or replacing anything so old and lame as not to be able to run it with a brand spanking new computer running XP or Vista.

In other words it’s the sales teams way of saying FU as**ole.

They’ve been playing these games since the early 90′s ‘O/S wars’. Why? Because there’s really nowhere else to shop :(

So, my old reliable dual 450MHz file server (that’s all it does, a centralized place for my data all set up and configured nicely with back-ups etc) will now have to be junked (like its EISA OS/2 predecessor) and I’ll have to spend around 25-30 hours configuring its replacement (like, I don’t have anything else to do, right?).

Now…. if an enterprising firmware writer could program a conversion interface…. oops, that’s right, I bet MS won’t let you have any info…

Enough ranting. Basically if it’s pre-XP it’s obsolete. Good luck to you all.