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...how?
Let me preface this by saying if you give me a switch, a bunch of cat5, and a mix of computers running anything from windows95 to xp pro (and everything in between) I can have shared folders on each of them accessible from every other in about 15 minutes.
But not Vista.
No, I don't want to put the folder in the shared documents location (or whatever special place Vista wants this stuff.) I don't think the computer should tell ME what to do.
No, I don't want to turn on "Everyone and their brother can access this folder without any security whatsoever."
What I !@$!@#$ WANT is user-level security (username and password) with the accompanying permissions options applied to a folder, any folder I choose, and I want to access it from an XP machine.
Except apparently that is just not possible. Can't be done.
Ridiculous.
( what I've done )
I created a folder on an a Vista laptop. I shared it via advanced sharing. I added a new account the vista machine that matched the credentials on an xp machine. I made that account an administrator on the vista machine. Under permissions for the sharing folder, I added "vistamachine/administrators" with full access, and that didn't work. So I added "vistamachine/newaccount" with full access. That didn't work. Finally I tried giving full access to "Everyone" and THAT didn't work.
I seriously love how everytime Microsoft tries to make something easier, it just gets ridiculously harder to do the same thing with SECURITY. This has been an ongoing trend ever since 98se, with the glory days of "This is acceptable" dying with 2k.
Let me preface this by saying if you give me a switch, a bunch of cat5, and a mix of computers running anything from windows95 to xp pro (and everything in between) I can have shared folders on each of them accessible from every other in about 15 minutes.
But not Vista.
No, I don't want to put the folder in the shared documents location (or whatever special place Vista wants this stuff.) I don't think the computer should tell ME what to do.
No, I don't want to turn on "Everyone and their brother can access this folder without any security whatsoever."
What I !@$!@#$ WANT is user-level security (username and password) with the accompanying permissions options applied to a folder, any folder I choose, and I want to access it from an XP machine.
Except apparently that is just not possible. Can't be done.
Ridiculous.
( what I've done )
I created a folder on an a Vista laptop. I shared it via advanced sharing. I added a new account the vista machine that matched the credentials on an xp machine. I made that account an administrator on the vista machine. Under permissions for the sharing folder, I added "vistamachine/administrators" with full access, and that didn't work. So I added "vistamachine/newaccount" with full access. That didn't work. Finally I tried giving full access to "Everyone" and THAT didn't work.
I seriously love how everytime Microsoft tries to make something easier, it just gets ridiculously harder to do the same thing with SECURITY. This has been an ongoing trend ever since 98se, with the glory days of "This is acceptable" dying with 2k.