I want complete, no hassel, control of My Computers!

Chuck,
Thanks for the reply.

First off, I absolutely LOVE Vista. I have had wonderful results with the
new system and wouldn't change it for the world! On the whole, it rocks.
[the help, however, really needs to be updated to include more Vista-centric
terms and solutions. It's still primarily XP focused.]

So, after fastidiously pouring through your help suggestions and those on
Microsoft's pages, I still had no results. Then an IT friend of mine came
over and I presented my problem.
Voila! It turned out that my issue was, as the administrator, I had no
password set on my HP (silly, eh?). Once I made my name and password
identical on both the Dell and HP I've had smooth sailing ever since.

Thanks again,
kb

"Chuck [MVP]" <none.RemoveThis@example.net> wrote in message
news:o0db2499olauah7u7hg4vrpp9aldttu7m3@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 9 May 2008 20:14:35 -0700, "KBrokaw" <k_brokaw.RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>>So does anyone have a solution????
>>
>>I'm having the same problem. I have a desktop XP, a new Dell Vista laptop
>>and a new HP Vista laptop (new being within the past 9 months or less).
>>I'm
>>computer savvy without being quite to the level of geek (to which I would
>>love to aspire) and have been hastling with my HP for about a week now.
>>They
>>were all sharing away with no problem until I started up the HP one day
>>and
>>then, voila, I could only access the public folder. So just to see what it
>>would do, I opened the sharing access up completely to everyone as Donald
>>so
>>vehemently disapproves of (and rightly so, I suppose). This, however,
>>yielded a more difficult situation - though I can get as far as the
>>computer
>>itself and to see the folders, I am now fully denied access to all
>>folders.
>>Luckily, I can still access the Dell and XP from the HP freely so I'm not
>>totally dead in the water.
>>
>>On the lookout for that fox!
>>kb
>
> There are solutions. Regardless of what you may think from reading here,
> Vista
> is not a disaster. There are millions of computers running Vista all over
> the
> world, and many communicating with other computers. Some basic
> understanding
> about networking, and file sharing, is necessary sometimes.
>
> The "access denied" error is unbelievably imprecise, and makes for much
> confusion.
> <http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/06/mysterious-error-5-aka-access-denied.html>
> http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/06/mysterious-error-5-aka-access-...ied.htm
>
> Assuming that you do not have lower level problems, look at authentication
> between your computers. Are you using Guest, or non-Guest,
> authentication?
> Guest authentication, by default, has much less access to sensitive and
> personal
> folders. Is it XP Home or Pro?
> <http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html>
> http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
> http://networking.nitecruzr.net/

On Sun, 11 May 2008 22:18:00 -0700, "KBrokaw" <k_brokaw.TakeThisOut@comcast.net> wrote:

>"Chuck [MVP]" <none.TakeThisOut@example.net> wrote in message
>news:o0db2499olauah7u7hg4vrpp9aldttu7m3@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 9 May 2008 20:14:35 -0700, "KBrokaw" <k_brokaw.TakeThisOut@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>So does anyone have a solution????
>>>
>>>I'm having the same problem. I have a desktop XP, a new Dell Vista laptop
>>>and a new HP Vista laptop (new being within the past 9 months or less).
>>>I'm
>>>computer savvy without being quite to the level of geek (to which I would
>>>love to aspire) and have been hastling with my HP for about a week now.
>>>They
>>>were all sharing away with no problem until I started up the HP one day
>>>and
>>>then, voila, I could only access the public folder. So just to see what it
>>>would do, I opened the sharing access up completely to everyone as Donald
>>>so
>>>vehemently disapproves of (and rightly so, I suppose). This, however,
>>>yielded a more difficult situation - though I can get as far as the
>>>computer
>>>itself and to see the folders, I am now fully denied access to all
>>>folders.
>>>Luckily, I can still access the Dell and XP from the HP freely so I'm not
>>>totally dead in the water.
>>>
>>>On the lookout for that fox!
>>>kb
>>
>> There are solutions. Regardless of what you may think from reading here,
>> Vista
>> is not a disaster. There are millions of computers running Vista all over
>> the
>> world, and many communicating with other computers. Some basic
>> understanding
>> about networking, and file sharing, is necessary sometimes.
>>
>> The "access denied" error is unbelievably imprecise, and makes for much
>> confusion.
>> <http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/06/mysterious-error-5-aka-access-denied.html>
>> http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/06/mysterious-error-5-aka-access-...ied.htm
>>
>> Assuming that you do not have lower level problems, look at authentication
>> between your computers. Are you using Guest, or non-Guest,
>> authentication?
>> Guest authentication, by default, has much less access to sensitive and
>> personal
>> folders. Is it XP Home or Pro?
>> <http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html>
>> http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html

>Chuck,
>Thanks for the reply.
>
>First off, I absolutely LOVE Vista. I have had wonderful results with the
>new system and wouldn't change it for the world! On the whole, it rocks.
>[the help, however, really needs to be updated to include more Vista-centric
>terms and solutions. It's still primarily XP focused.]
>
>So, after fastidiously pouring through your help suggestions and those on
>Microsoft's pages, I still had no results. Then an IT friend of mine came
>over and I presented my problem.
>Voila! It turned out that my issue was, as the administrator, I had no
>password set on my HP (silly, eh?). Once I made my name and password
>identical on both the Dell and HP I've had smooth sailing ever since.
>
>Thanks again,
>kb

Yay! The old blank password trick!

Thanks for the feedback, and the update.

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/