Hello... finally changed to Vista, and now I'm getting mad...

I have a home network with Vista on 3 PCs and one currently with WinXP Pro.

I want to share my entire hard drives between all computers. With WinXP this was very easy to do and once shared any computer on the network could access from the root and into all the folders. I want to do the same with Vista.

I can enable a folder for sharing without problems... but when I try to access the root of the HDD from another computer I'm denied.

Anyone know how to get this to work? I've already disable passwords and enabled sharing in all my PCs... all are on the same network, workgroup, etc. All the PCs can see each other and the HDDs, but I can't access the root and all folder under.

Thanks!

go into the Computer Management console, there is a "New Share" option when you right-click the active shares sub-folder. using that wizard, you can add a share to anything, including drives.

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Tried that... didn't work. :(

What's funny is that Windows even told me they don't recommend sharing the Root drive and I said do it anyway... and when I jump to my other PC... "access denied". :(

Incase it's needed....

All 3 Vista PCs are Ultimate versions...
All 3 PCs were setup this AM...
All 3 PCs have all the updates installed...

Each PC uses a different "user name"... and none are using a password to login... when I turn the PC on, windows loads directly to the desktop.

fixed the problem!!!!!... found my answer here:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/vist...

The reason is Vista follows the base permissions model from Windows 2003, which doesn't grant broad permissions to the Everyone group for security reasons.

Keep in mind there's a difference between NTFS (file level permissions) and share permissions (network access permissions). You must have rights through BOTH NTFS & Share permissions to access something over the network.

Typically, this is best accomplished by granting Everyone share permissions, and restricting permmisions using NTFS, since NTFS will trump share permissions anyway.

This permissions model allows flexibility to allow certain people to access data locally, but not over a network should you ever want that, but can be a bit confusing for people not familiar with how it works.

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Yeah... was a little confusing coming from WinXP Pro. I've never used Win2k3 or the like so this was a new hat for me to crash through.

I understand the idea behind it and I'm sure one day I'll need the extra options (when I've got kids and such) but for now it's just me and the wife so allowing full access is preferred at this point.

It would have been nice to have an option in BOLD saying what I needed to do though... or better yet, under PC management maybe an option to turn on/off this extra security all together.

Oh well... all part of the learning a new OS I guess.

TK.