Sharing Between Vista and XP Pro

[RyanbATC]

READY TO PULL MY HAIR OUT!!!

ARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!

Ok, so I'm trying to setup a program which runs on my smaller PC (runs XP Pro x86) which can connect to my main gaming rig (runs Vista x64), from now on I'm calling the small one "small" and my main rig "main."

I've gone through all the usual steps on both systems:

1) Firewall off
2) uac off on main
3) admin accounts on both system
4) simple sharing disabled on small
5) Both are connected to wired router, both IP's are 192.168.1.x (ie x=5 for small and 3 for main)

6)both are under WORKGROUP

And the really fricken annoying this is: some folders and files share no problems!!! ARGGH! My printer is connected to main and it shares with small and also my wife's laptop - zero issues....

I tried accessing test files from small on main - no joy. I tried the reverse - no joy. On small I get the usual annoying "you might not have permission" blah blah blah. On main "Windows cannot access...check the spelling of the name..."

Any guru's out there??? How can small see random files on main but main cannot access any files on small (except printer which is connected to main)

HELP??

[RyanbATC]

Well the problem is I'm trying to setup SquawkBox 4 on the smaller machine because my main rig isn't all that great. I was trying to maximize performance. But I've tried everything I know of and did a lot of googling etc etc. To no avail...

Ugh

[vulcan]

If it is just SB4 you're trying to set up Ryan and using it with FSX then it needs Simconnect; if it's FS9 then a registered version of FSUIPC should do it.

I haven't tried it with Vista but I do have SB working with FS9, both PCs running XP.

I am currently trying to set up SB4 for FSX but can't get Simconnect working and so far have not had any help from 2 forums I asked in :-(

[ReggieF5421]

I setup all my computers with a master admin user name and password the same - this is the renamed Administrator account. But I then setup an Admin account on each computer with a unique user name and password.

That way when I want to connect to another computer I have a different user name and ID for that computer to log-in.

Since you are in a workgroup and not a domain, your accounts on the different computers are different even if named identically.

The account on the main computer maincomputer\myname is different from the account on the small computer smallcomputer\myname. I have found that using the same user name and the same password is likely to cause issues with some programs.

I setup my accounts like this:

Win7Alien\User123
Win7Dell\User234
WinVHPLT\User345

When I want to connect from one to the other - I setup the share - give the Users group Full Control security rights.

From the other computer I will map a drive to the share - and connect with a different user name.

If I am connecting from the Win7Dell to FSX on the Win7Alien - then when I create the mapped drive on the Win7Dell - I use the Win7Alien\User123 ID and password to log onto the Win7Alien computer.

I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense if you haven't worked with accounts and passwords.

The key is to understand that your ID on one computer is not the same as your ID on another computer even if both belong to the same workgroup. There are two parts to a computer ID - the name of the computer holding the account, and the name of the account.