Sharing

In my local network, The Windows XP machine is sharing a folder.
The Windows 7 machine sees the folder but cannot open it.
Error, "You do not have permissions..."

I've read some stuff about Homegroup, but that seems to apply only to Win 7
machines.

Earl

In article <TeJen.41780$>, Earl Partridge says...
>
> In my local network, The Windows XP machine is sharing a folder.
> The Windows 7 machine sees the folder but cannot open it.
> Error, "You do not have permissions..."
>
> I've read some stuff about Homegroup, but that seems to apply only to Win 7
> machines.
>
Create a user account on the XP machine that has the same
username/password as the account on the Win7 box.


--
Conor

I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.

By User Account, I assume you do not mean "workgroup" name?
Both machines are in the same workgroup, and the XP machine shares 2
printers
that the Win7 machine can print to.

As for User Account, I am the only user and I am "Earl" on both machines...
no password
required.

Earl


"Conor" <> wrote in message
news:...
> In article <TeJen.41780$>, Earl Partridge says...
>>
>> In my local network, The Windows XP machine is sharing a folder.
>> The Windows 7 machine sees the folder but cannot open it.
>> Error, "You do not have permissions..."
>>
>> I've read some stuff about Homegroup, but that seems to apply only to Win
>> 7
>> machines.
>>
> Create a user account on the XP machine that has the same
> username/password as the account on the Win7 box.
>
>
> --
> Conor
>
> I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.

More Info... On that XP machine I have a folder on my C: drive shared,
which I can access
from Win7 machine. The folder that I can not access is on the desktop of
the XP machine.
Earl


"Earl Partridge" <> wrote in message
news:MlTen.96638$...
> By User Account, I assume you do not mean "workgroup" name?
> Both machines are in the same workgroup, and the XP machine shares 2
> printers
> that the Win7 machine can print to.
>
> As for User Account, I am the only user and I am "Earl" on both
> machines... no password
> required.
>
> Earl
>
>
> "Conor" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> In article <TeJen.41780$>, Earl Partridge says...
>>>
>>> In my local network, The Windows XP machine is sharing a folder.
>>> The Windows 7 machine sees the folder but cannot open it.
>>> Error, "You do not have permissions..."
>>>
>>> I've read some stuff about Homegroup, but that seems to apply only to
>>> Win 7
>>> machines.
>>>
>> Create a user account on the XP machine that has the same
>> username/password as the account on the Win7 box.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Conor
>>
>> I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
>

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:45:05 -0500, "Earl Partridge"
<> wrote:

>By User Account, I assume you do not mean "workgroup" name?
>Both machines are in the same workgroup, and the XP machine shares 2
>printers
>that the Win7 machine can print to.
>
>As for User Account, I am the only user and I am "Earl" on both machines...
>no password
>required.
>
>Earl
>

AFAIK there are problems with sharing when no password is used. There
is probably a registry fix but the easy way is to change your users to
have passwords.

Steve

--
Neural Planner Software Ltd www.NPSL1.com

Neural network applications, help and support.

"Stephen Wolstenholme" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:45:05 -0500, "Earl Partridge"
> <> wrote:
>
>>By User Account, I assume you do not mean "workgroup" name?
>>Both machines are in the same workgroup, and the XP machine shares 2
>>printers
>>that the Win7 machine can print to.
>>
>>As for User Account, I am the only user and I am "Earl" on both
>>machines...
>>no password
>>required.
>>
>>Earl
>>
>
> AFAIK there are problems with sharing when no password is used. There
> is probably a registry fix but the easy way is to change your users to
> have passwords.

Works fine here... not a single account has a password on any of 4 PCs in my
Workgroup.

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:01:49 -0500, "Earl Partridge"
<> wrote:

>More Info... On that XP machine I have a folder on my C: drive shared,
>which I can access
>from Win7 machine. The folder that I can not access is on the desktop of
>the XP machine.
>Earl

Unless things have changed since XP, you can't access a Desktop folder
from another machine because the Desktop is located inside a user
account and is therefore private. That probably doesn't make much
sense the way I wrote it, but if you move the folder out of the
profile, for example to the root of C:\, then it should be visible.

I moved the folder from the desktop to C: Root. Still can not access, even
though it
does show on the Win7 Network list.
I also created a NEW folder on the XP C: Root and it can not be accessed. I
checked the
Share settings of the folder that can be accessed with the one that can not
be accessed
and they are the same.
Earl


"Char Jackson" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:01:49 -0500, "Earl Partridge"
> <> wrote:
>
>>More Info... On that XP machine I have a folder on my C: drive shared,
>>which I can access
>>from Win7 machine. The folder that I can not access is on the desktop of
>>the XP machine.
>>Earl
>
> Unless things have changed since XP, you can't access a Desktop folder
> from another machine because the Desktop is located inside a user
> account and is therefore private. That probably doesn't make much
> sense the way I wrote it, but if you move the folder out of the
> profile, for example to the root of C:\, then it should be visible.
>

By "user account" he indeed means "user account"...

I have had a similar experience to Stephen Wolstenholme in this thread,
and have solved it by making sure that on each machine there is an
account with the same name and with the same non-null password.

However, relic replied to Stephen Wolstenholme's post with a different
experience, just to make things confusing.

On 2/17/10, Earl Partridge posted:
> By User Account, I assume you do not mean "workgroup" name?
> Both machines are in the same workgroup, and the XP machine shares 2 printers
> that the Win7 machine can print to.

> As for User Account, I am the only user and I am "Earl" on both machines...
> no password
> required.

> Earl


> "Conor" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> In article <TeJen.41780$>, Earl Partridge says...
>>>
>>> In my local network, The Windows XP machine is sharing a folder.
>>> The Windows 7 machine sees the folder but cannot open it.
>>> Error, "You do not have permissions..."
>>>
>>> I've read some stuff about Homegroup, but that seems to apply only to Win
>>> 7
>>> machines.
>>>
>> Create a user account on the XP machine that has the same
>> username/password as the account on the Win7 box.
>>
>>
>> -- Conor
>>
>> I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.

--
Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com

On 2/17/2010 10:39 AM, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:45:05 -0500, "Earl Partridge"
> <> wrote:
>
>> By User Account, I assume you do not mean "workgroup" name?
>> Both machines are in the same workgroup, and the XP machine shares 2
>> printers
>> that the Win7 machine can print to.
>>
>> As for User Account, I am the only user and I am "Earl" on both machines...
>> no password
>> required.
>>
>> Earl
>>
>
> AFAIK there are problems with sharing when no password is used. There
> is probably a registry fix but the easy way is to change your users to
> have passwords.
>

You're thinking of the problems related to scheduled tasks and accounts
with blank passwords.