New PC

[Sebby]

Just get both PCs connected to the router, setup a shared folder on one of the PCs, and you're away.

[Rik]

 

Know the feeling.

[Simon]

There's some sort of issue on my old machine, as whenever I have tried to add some folders from my laptop, it refuses, complaining about administrator rights, or something, but it works the other way round.  Not sure if it's a Vista thing.

[Rik]

Could be - grab Sebby or Lance.

[Sebby]

I would try to connect to the Vista machine from XP. It'll prompt you for a username and password; enter the username and password you use on the Vista machine and it'll work as normal.

Also, it could just be that the share you've created doesn't have full permissions.

[Simon]

The Vista machine isn't passworded, Seb.  I agree, it's probably something in Vista's permissions.

[Sebby]

If you check the properties of the folder you've shared, you'll find some settings that concern permissions. I can't remember them off hand, but I'll look tonight (if you haven't already sorted it!).

[Simon]

OK, as soon as I can get off here, and have put the shopping away, I'll be on it.    Could do with two monitors in these situations.

[Rik]

I've got a spare prefect...

[Simon]

  Isn't it time you weren't here?   

[Rik]

Soon, very soon.

[madasahatter]

There's some sort of issue on my old machine, as whenever I have tried to add some folders from my laptop, it refuses, complaining about administrator rights, or something, but it works the other way round.  Not sure if it's a Vista thing.

I'm sure I've read about this very thing in these forums Simon - it is to do with Vista, and it is to do with permissions, but for the life of me I can't find the thread - sorry 

[Glenn]

Simon,

Take a look here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx it may be of some help

[LesD]

I know I can miss the target completely never mind the bull's eye but I had a "oneway" network problem a while back and it took a Registry edit to sort it out. This was XP to XP I have never had my hands on a Vista system.

The gist of the solution over on EYO was this:

Ok one of those Eureka moments at last! 

I have been all over the MS Knowledge base tonight and in MS KB Article ID : 913628 the crucial bit I found is:

In the right pane, double-click restrictanonymous.
Make sure that the value in the Value data box is set to 0

My value was 1. How it got to be 1 will remain one of life's mysteries. 

I had a gut feeling that this one was going to involve a bit of a registry edit and that is exactly what I had to do.

Thank for the support and encouragement with this one.

Chapter and verse is here:

http://phorums.com.au/showthread.php?t=212995

With the above extract being the content of my post no.7

[Niall]

I've seen that one way thing before. The last time I saw it was admittedly a few years ago, but it was on XP just after it came out. It was related to installing FTP server software which altered system settings to stop people connecting to your server without creating an authenticated account.

[Simon]

Forgive the rant, and language, but here goes...

Never, EVER AGAIN am I building a new computer.  I have spent the whole evening trying to transfer files from my old IDE hard drive (no OS, just storage), on to this new thing.  First I tried using LAN, but neither were having any of it.  Kept getting message that 'Home' couldn't do something, neither could see the other, and only having one monitor made the job that much bloody harder anyway, so I gave that up as a bad idea, and decided to physically swap the hard drive into the new PC.  Simple, you would think?  Was it bloody hell!  First I had to remove the SATA connectors, to enable me to fit the hard drive in.  In order to do this, I had to remove the floppy IDE cable.  Even with pressing the release clip, yet another SATA connector came away from the mobo rendering it useless.  This wasn't through being ham fisted, these things are just poorly fitted, and I've a good mind to complain to Abit about it.

Having eventually installed the hard drive, and put everything back together, I fired up the PC, and everything had slowed to a crawl.  I mean, literally 10 minutes to boot into Windows and load the desktop.  I thought it might have been a one off, dealing with the 'new' IDE drive, but rebooted, and the same thing happened.   Checked in My Computer, and the IDE drive was listed, but I thought maybe I'd connected the wrong bit of the IDE cable, so swapped it for the secondary connection, rebooted, and Windows loaded like lightning, but the drive was nowhere to be seen.  Maybe the jumpers are wrong?  Of course, once the drive was in the case, I couldn't read the label to say where the jumpers should go, so had to dismantle everything again to get the ing thing out to read the jumper instructions, of which there were 4 different sets.  How am I supposed to know which ones to use?  There are 4 different combinations for Cable Select, 4 different for Primary, 4 different for secondary, and I can't remember what the last one was.  To add to this, the writing is so small, I can barely read it, and in fact, can't read what the four different sets of jumper combinations are actually called.  OK, so might be time for en eye test, but even so, why is everything so complicated?  In the end, I chose one of the Cable Select options, to be safe, and reinstalled the hard drive.  Booted up, and no drive seen.  Changed the jumpers three or four times, but still no drive seen.  Changed to the secondary IDE connector, and still nothing, then I realised I had the sodding thing the wrong way round.    Connected the IDE correctly, rebooted, and again, everything at a crawl.

I've now given up completely, and am building a hatred for this computer bordering on the psychotic.  I wish I'd never started it, and it will be very lucky if it doesn't get thrown down the stairs at some point in the very near future.  I have wasted a whole evening and achieved nothing except some hardening of the arteries, and to put it mildly, am ing furious!!   

[Sebby]

I'm really sorry to hear that, Simon. I know how frustrating these things can be.

So are your hard drives IDE, not SATA? What I'd suggest is downloading the manual for your particular drive and getting the cable select setting right. After that, you shouldn't have any trouble,

[Simon]

The new hard drives are SATA, but the old one I wanted to install is IDE.  The mobo is supposed to be able to support both.  To be honest, I don't know what the drive is now, and I think it would just be easier to do what I was going to do in the first place, and transfer everything via my external hard drive.  It might be slow, but at least I know it will work.

[Sebby]

Ah, I'm with you now. I'm not 100% how it works with having both a SATA and IDE drive installed, but I would have thought that the IDE drive would still be set to primary as it is the primary device on the IDE channel without necessarily being the primary device overall. I would think that it's the boot order in the BIOS that allows you to choose the SATA drive as the boot device. Perhaps make sure that this is correct - could the slow boot be that the PC is trying to boot from the IDE drive (which would have all the wrong drivers, etc)?

[Simon]

I don't know, Seb, I was just so up tight I couldn't really think straight, and the IDE drive is back in the old PC now.  The MOST frustrating thing is these SATA connectors that keep breaking.  One more, and I won't have enough left for what I need, so I think it's going to have to go into a PC shop to be repaired anyway, believe it or not.

[madasahatter]

Pity it's not gone well Simon - the guy who invented computers should have been shot before he came up with the idea 

note to self - NEVER try to build a PC - just buy one - it's much easier

[Simon]

It's all part of the challenge, Mad, but it's sooo annoying when things just seem to be deliberately designed to work against you.

This is what I get when trying to view other computers on the network:



This happens with both old and new PCs, so I'm guessing it must be something to do with the 2Wire, but I don't know what.  The router sees both computers when connected by Ethernet.

[Colin Burns]

which os you running Simon


and building PC is fun i have just slamed my newest one together from my computer trade account i have for
my business and saved my self a whole lot of money

that and PCs are very easy to build

[Inactive]

Sorry that all is not well with the new computer Simon, equally sorry that I cannot offer any help.

It will get sorted eventually.

[Simon]

Both XP, Colin.

Yes, PCs are not difficult to build, but poorly designed and badly manufactured parts don't help.  I thought I'd be safe with an Abit board, but I would hesitate before buying another.