Vista Networking Issue: File Sharing

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As the title states, i'm having problems with sharing drives over a network using Vista 64bit Home Premium. I've turned on File Sharing and when i shared the drive i gave full access to the "Everyone" account yet i still get the error code 0x80070005 (Which is Access Denied).

I've gone through the same steps on another machine and shared a drive and i had no problem accessing it from another computer.

EDIT: When i try to access the drive, it says the drive is available but the user account that i tried to access it with was denied access. Yet i access to the drive for "Everyone".

Any help would be awesome because this is driving me crazy...

Thanks in advance.

[Cephius]

Try setting the user rights to one user (yourself) and use your network credentials to try to access the drive. Also try putting the computers on the same workgroup, it makes it easier for the computer to autodiscover each other. For instance set your computer and the one you're trying to access with in the MSHOME workgroup and see if that helps.

Other things you can try:

- Turn off Windows Firewall, try again
- Make sure Network Discovery, File Sharing, and Media Sharing are set to On in the Network and Sharing Center.
- Administrative Tools - Local Security Policy - Local Policies - Network Access: Sharing and security model for local accounts - Should be set to Classic - local users authenticate as themselves

[Shuemue]

Have you done that patch thingy so that network map works right?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

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Nope i haven't seen that patch. Yet when i try to install it says "Not enough storage is available to process this command."

I have the firewalls turned off for each computer.
I have Network Discovery, File Sharing and Media Sharing enabled for both
All computers on the network are on the same workgroup

[Shuemue]

Give us a quick breakdown of your LAN?

Like;

Desktop - Vista64
Laptop - XP Home
Desktop2 - XP Pro

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Desktop1 - Vista64 - Problem sharing drives - Trying to share 5TB raid and 500GB Mirror
Desktop2 - Vista64 - Shares a 640GB USB harddrive
Desktop3 - Vista64 - Doesn't share anything
Desktop4 - XP Pro - Shares 500GB Mirror
Desktop5 - XP64 - Doesn't share anything
Desktop6 - XP Pro - Doesn't share anything
Laptop1 - XP pro - Shares one 150GB
Laptop2 - Vista64 - Doesn't share anything
Laptop3 - Mac - Doesn't share anything

[Mafai]

Have you done that patch thingy so that network map works right?

Download details: Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder (KB922120)

If he is able to get to the point of being denied access, he can see the drive, it is just a permissions issue. Your network is most likely set to public, meaning it does not trust any computer on the network, you want to set your network type to private, so it trusts other PC's on your network. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb727037.aspx check out the Setting the Network Location Type section. If your screenshot matches the circled below, read further for solution.

http://i.technet.microsoft.com/Bb727...echNet.10).gif


Hopefully your solution:

To view the current network location type, do the following, click Start, right-click Network, and then click Properties.

The Network and Sharing Center window displays the network location type in parentheses after the network name.

To the right of the network name and location type, click Customize.

In the Set Network Location dialog box, click Private, and then click Next.

In the Successfully set network settings dialog box, click Close. You may need to restart.

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The network is set to private

[Mafai]

just another shot in the dark, make sure you set the permissions in both places (the security and sharing tab)

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- Administrative Tools - Local Security Policy - Local Policies - Network Access: Sharing and security model for local accounts - Should be set to Classic - local users authenticate as themselves

When i went to go look for this in the Administrative Tools, it wasn't there. Is there another way to access it?

Permissions in both the security and sharing tab are the same

[Mafai]

Is password protected sharing enabled? If it is, what happens is the computer your trying to connect from trys to connect using the username it is currently logged in on, meaning.... it will be denied (unless u make another user account on the sharing machine matching the username/password). I am not sure if this is how it works, but if it is enabled, it would mean "Everyone" is everyone that has a user account on the machine, not really "everyone". See below for how to disable it. If it is already disabled, post back.

To disable password protected sharing, do the following:

In the Sharing and Discovery section of the Network and Sharing Center window, click the down arrow next to Password protected sharing.

Within the Password protected sharing settings, click Turn off password protected sharing, and then click Apply.