Sucess!!

[Annie Woughman]

I actually got my Windows 7, two Vista machines and two XP machines
networked. They have been all been able to use the internet connection
through our wireless network, but file sharing was a joke. Today I slugged
it out with all of them and now I can even open up the C drive on my Win7
machine from the XP's. I finally figured out that not only did all drives
have to be "shared"--but "everyone" has to have permission to read and
change files on each and every drive from the security tab also. This is
exactly what I needed. I have both a secure hardware firewall as well as a
secure software firewall, and have done vulnerability tests on my network
and I am good to go.

 

[Andy]

I actually got my Windows 7, two Vista machines and two XP
machines
networked. They have been all been able to use the internet
connection through our wireless network, but file sharing was a joke.
Today I slugged it out with all of them and now I can even open up the
C drive on my Win7 machine from the XP's. I finally figured out that
not only did all drives have to be "shared"--but "everyone" has to
have permission to read and change files on each and every drive from
the security tab also. This is exactly what I needed. I have both a
secure hardware firewall as well as a secure software firewall, and
have done vulnerability tests on my network and I am good to go.

Congrats, Annie!

Something like that would probably piss me off for a month of Sundays.

Best,

Andy
TGIF

 

[kreed]

Congrats, Annie!

Something like that would probably piss me off for a month of Sundays.

Best,

Andy
TGIF

You only need to share the directories (folders) you wish to be visible
across the network, and you can share different ones for different users.
K

 

[Annie Woughman]

You only need to share the directories (folders) you wish to be visible
across the network, and you can share different ones for different users.
K

Since I am basically the "Administrator" of our little home network I never
know which files or directories I will need from which machine at any given
time, I want them all available. Like I said in my first post our network
is well protected by a hardware firewall and a software firewall, so what is
the point of locking myself out of my own files? The system files and any
programs that I allowed to be installed into the Program Files folder are
still not accessible.