Problem with sharing drives on Vista and XP network

I have two computers, XP and Vista. Vista can see and access all of the XP's
partitions on its two drives. From the XP computer I can see and access all
of the partitions of two of the drives but I cannot access any of the
partitions from the drive whose first partition happens to be the operating
system. I get the "you don't have permission, contact the administrator"
message. Since I have successfully set it up to work on the other drives and
partitions I figure there is maybe some kind of other lock on the OS section?

parlous wrote:
> I have two computers, XP and Vista. Vista can see and access all of the XP's
> partitions on its two drives. From the XP computer I can see and access all
> of the partitions of two of the drives but I cannot access any of the
> partitions from the drive whose first partition happens to be the operating
> system. I get the "you don't have permission, contact the administrator"
> message. Since I have successfully set it up to work on the other drives and
> partitions I figure there is maybe some kind of other lock on the OS section?

Vista has many new and excellent security features which IMHO are long
overdue, and I hope they will not be defeated by impatient users who are
spoiled by the very lax security policies of older versions of Windows!

Security comes at a price, and that price is almost always extra effort
and a bit of inconvenience. (But still much more convenient than fixing
the mess left by an intruder.)

File sharing uses the SMB protocol which has always been a huge security
hole for Windows, and I welcome any effort from MS to fix it.

IMHO one potential fix is to install 'users' in a completely separate
partition from the OS (in the hallowed tradition of *nix) so that weak
passwords and such can't compromise the OS itself, even if a particular
user's account is hacked. Vista's new 'Public' folders are a baby step
in that direction.

That's my sermon for today. I now return you to other posters who can
actually answer your question ;o)

I'm not sure if I understand your question but see if this helps.

http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Networking/filtertoken.aspx

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"parlous" <parlous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:07DD63B9-3F1E-46F7-AC4B-0266AE361409@microsoft.com...
>I have two computers, XP and Vista. Vista can see and access all of the
>XP's
> partitions on its two drives. From the XP computer I can see and access
> all
> of the partitions of two of the drives but I cannot access any of the
> partitions from the drive whose first partition happens to be the
> operating
> system. I get the "you don't have permission, contact the administrator"
> message. Since I have successfully set it up to work on the other drives
> and
> partitions I figure there is maybe some kind of other lock on the OS
> section?
>
>

Hi Kerry!
The link you posted does not draw correctly in IE7 right side of page is
overlaid by the left side .
The link does draw correctly in Firefox though.

"Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
news:%23P6xUvrXHHA.992@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> I'm not sure if I understand your question but see if this helps.
>
> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Networking/filtertoken.aspx
>
> --
> Kerry Brown
> Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
> http://www.vistahelp.ca
>
>
> "parlous" <parlous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:07DD63B9-3F1E-46F7-AC4B-0266AE361409@microsoft.com...
>>I have two computers, XP and Vista. Vista can see and access all of the
>>XP's
>> partitions on its two drives. From the XP computer I can see and access
>> all
>> of the partitions of two of the drives but I cannot access any of the
>> partitions from the drive whose first partition happens to be the
>> operating
>> system. I get the "you don't have permission, contact the administrator"
>> message. Since I have successfully set it up to work on the other drives
>> and
>> partitions I figure there is maybe some kind of other lock on the OS
>> section?
>>
>>
>

It displays fine for me in IE7. You should contact the owner of the site and
let them know.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"Kue2" <h.j.kennedy@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:AED453BF-83C5-4F59-940D-D575F6412F8B@microsoft.com...
> Hi Kerry!
> The link you posted does not draw correctly in IE7 right side of page is
> overlaid by the left side .
> The link does draw correctly in Firefox though.
>
> "Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
> news:%23P6xUvrXHHA.992@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> I'm not sure if I understand your question but see if this helps.
>>
>> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Networking/filtertoken.aspx
>>