Share Files over a network on Vista

[BobajoBrennen]

too fucking slow

[killerninja566]

Its not letting me hit the share button

[XBLSmackithTheDown]

Thanks so much! Just bought a new Laptop and was having trouble transferring over all my music from my old desktop.

Watched the video and followed the steps and went perfectly first try. :)

[rji]

Hey thanks for the video! helped me out a lot.

[linkspast88]

Thansk this helps me a lot.

and.. you got a loud mouse

[BeansCanTalk]

Thanks man, what is the limit of computers you can have on a network?

[Kjanfu]

anoying sounds -.-''



[stayfocus90]

thanks alot bruh

[MasonnxX]

Really good tutorial but it was so boring, but thanks anyway.

[Joeldc510]

this helped a lot! i was breaking my head trying to figure this out on my own!

[k1ngkung6]

Why can't I do this with a folder saved on the C: harddrive? this is driving me crazy. please help me!

[MsWindows7tutorials]

@basiccomputerhelp can it be shared between two pcs on a modem?

[KillRocker52]

it asks for a username and password what do i do ?

[arm4life87]

@KillRocker52 on the computer sharing the file, go to network and sharing center and turn off password protected sharing.

[TheBeary12]

when i have shared a folder on vista, it wont show up on my xp pc?, and its the same on my vista pc, the folders ive shared on xp, wont show up ? :S

[arm4life87]

@TheBeary12 is network discovery turned on, on the vista machine?

[37474748]

So that's where they put that guest login. I was like wtf I don't even have an pw set and the xp ones can't get permissions. Hope this works!!!

[Niarnitsme]

OMFG THANK YOU IM GONNA SUBSCRIBE TO YOU I LOVE YOU THANKS AGAIN

[MomCanHaveSandwich]

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[MomCanHaveSandwich]

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[GOLDENDRAGON250]

Can this be done by wireless network

[basiccomputerhelp]

@GOLDENDRAGON250 Yes it can i did all this over a wireless network

[GI2EMLIN]

Thanks! GREAT video helped me alot

[6GJinn]

hey there

at "Sharing and Discovery" i cant see any file sharing,pub folder sharing or printer sharing etc... all i can see is "network discovery" .. i cant figure it out

help man .. tnx n advance

[Ghis1964c]

Thx, that works;)

I was ok last winter doin between xp-vista with one cable and passworded. Now I wanted to do it with an old newly acquired xp pc with two LAN but could only share internet(when vista is not fooling around with its IP again as vista is only good for, and also installing drivers when not ask)

Now I have made your tut work. Problem: I can only access one of my two ext hhd. In xp, I see both of vista's ext hdd F and G, but can't get into F.

Any idea why?

Peace

[basiccomputerhelp]

@Ghis1964c Well Vista does not like sharing drive letters, Sometimes i can share them and sometimes i can't. also do you have one of those ext HDD that will put itself to sleep, Vista will not wake it up for a remote connection ether, so it will let you see it but not access it, some of the policy's in Vista are crap.

[Ghis1964c]

@basiccomputerhelp After that day,I've been able to access my HDDs. But after re-start in order to save all these settings,I couldn't even get the internet and home-network to work via vista to xp,but I could see all of those "f-k-- network discoveries" like pc-isabel, pc-de-vista, etc and what not, except my own xp. True vista's polits are crap.I don't even let any of my pc sleep, even less hdd.I leave nothing to themselves in windows; if they can't find whats wrong, they can't maintenance;)

[tiosa]

Good one dude! it helped my cousin alot =D

Ty!

[basiccomputerhelp]

@tiosa no problem, your welcome

[Akoa0013]

I did windows 7 and windows xp. Never done this before and thought maybe youtube has the answers and sure enough it did. thx for making this video. I was able to get it up and running with your help.

[basiccomputerhelp]

@Akoa0013 Yea from what i hear Vista is a very hard system to network like this.

[roryg911]

Thanks alot man really helped me out :)

[basiccomputerhelp]

@roryg911 No problem your welcome

[roryg911]

Thanks alot man really helped me out :)

[roryg911]

Thanks alot man really helped me out :)

[debaasjes]

Thanks, this really helped me. :-)

[basiccomputerhelp]

@debaasjes no problem

[jayce1983]

no dice dude. i already had all the sharing options applied through network control panel.. my desktop finds theshared computer and folder from my laptop however when i click to on the folder i had shared it simply gives me error "windows cannot acess *folder etc.."

i've been trying for hours with many approaches and still.... no dice, any ideas?

[basiccomputerhelp]

@jayce1983 The thing i hate about Vista is sometimes it just does not want to work right.

One suggestion i would think is to check the firewall on all the computers. I know Norton use to like to block file sharing a lot. And sorry it took so long to get back to you

[Rudi6908]

This really helped me set up my home network. Thank you very much :-)

[basiccomputerhelp]

@Rudi6908 your very welcome

[jrg411]

I want to set up wireless a nw between my desktop which runs on xp and 4 laptops running on vista. Would you recommend setting it up using my desktop and change workgroup name on the laptops or setting it up on one of the laptops and change the workgroup name on the desktop.

[basiccomputerhelp]

i would change the name on the desktop so that you only have to change on one computer. Now i have a Custom setup i had to change 10 different computers.

[KoopaPrince]

IT WORKED THANKS MAN BUT I ALSO would know how to do the root drives....

[basiccomputerhelp]

As far as I can tell windows vista will not let you do the root drives. I have tried. I did it on XP with no problem but a warning. My friend, who is a network tech, says that it is hard you have to edit the registry.

[EasyMadeWeps]

Everything works until i try enter the file... It says assess denied. Fuck vista :'(

[basiccomputerhelp]

i know vista fucken sucks. only think i can think of is to ask "is File Sharing enabled in your Network and Sharing center, in the control panel?" my friend said that if folder sharing is on and not file sharing then you can see what is in the folder but not access it.

another probable solution is to restart the computer with the file being shared.

[EasyMadeWeps]

@basiccomputerhelp Yeah but the thing with this is i have done exactly everything that enables shit. For E.g Permission is all up to scratch i have made it so anyone can access and change and copy and use and non Readonly and whatever. But i click it and it pretty much says. "Hey I'm Vista and i suck dick, thanks for trying to use one of my faulty features :-) have a Shit day :)"

[basiccomputerhelp]

sounds right.

I have had more problems with vista then i care to have. When i have a computer to fix and they say they have Vista i am like "NO". i have a another computer in my house with vista that will not access another computer on the network at all. sorry i can't help you anymore most of my clients that use networking have ether moved back to XP or up to 7.

Sorry, BCH, William

[EasyMadeWeps]

Look mate you tried and it's great you had the liberty to even talk to me :)

Thanks for trying to help.

[basiccomputerhelp]

your welcome.

Vista is a example of Microsoft's policy "if its not broke, fix it tell it is"

[rolando2bad]

I need help please!!!! I want to share a whole partition and when i want to access from my other pc I get a error "(Network Error) Windows cannot acces\\........." what should i do??

[basiccomputerhelp]

Sad thing is you can't share the root of a drive on Vista, at least not easily. As for how I don't know because it is not a common need

[kimsebasse1993]

When i try to share with my sister, it's asking for a acc id and password ?? what am i doing wrong?

[basiccomputerhelp]

very common problem and the most common solution is, on your computer you do not have Guest Access turned on, in XP it is on buy defult but not in vista, this is different from the guest user. i talk about it around 2:56 it is done buy shutting off the Password protect sharing

[cannonfodder1023]

im trying to set up wlan have wirless router and internet  modem dlink g-604 t and 3 machines 2 vista and 1 xp visa machines see each other but cannot access shared drives file sharing is on ive shared the drives open port 80 still cannot share files want to set up xp machine as file server but have all machines accessible any help would be appriciated

[basiccomputerhelp]

The File and Printer sharing port on windows is not 80 it is 445, if that is not open on the computers then it will not work

[cory1040]

thanks for the info, but i have a problem, when i try to acces my desktop form my laptop it says "Windows cannot access \\(my desktop name), check the spelling of the name, otherwise there might be a problem with your network" so i hit diagnose to find the problem BUT then it says "(my desktop name) is not a valid host name"? what does this mean and do you know how to fix it? if so please enlighten me with your knowledge :P

[basiccomputerhelp]

best thing i can think of at the moment is both computers are on different workgroups. Windows XP and Vista have different default workgroups

That and sometimes when you buy a computer from someone like dell they will change the workgroup at the factory.

[XsamuraileonX]

This was very useful the prob that i was having was on the password thing :P thanks. Well explained

[basiccomputerhelp]

your welcome. thank you!

[Insaneninja209]

Thanks!

[basiccomputerhelp]

your welcome

[kill4these]

thanks helps lots

[basiccomputerhelp]

your welcome, sorry it took me so long to respond youtube did not notify me of a comment at the time you commented.

[d24tdi]

thx this help allooooooooooot  :) : )

[basiccomputerhelp]

your welcome

[rosamariaj]

thanks

[basiccomputerhelp]

no problem

[rosamariaj]

thank u

[mosesjade]

it requires usename and password what should i do?

[basiccomputerhelp]

on vista did you disable password protected sharing. on Vista it is on by defult and in XP it is off by default

[1chapper]

Thanks man! Highly appreciated!

[duhwinghung]

hi, i was wondering if u could help me, i have chosen a folder that i want to share.

but i cant view the shared folder (i.e. my laptops netowork) on the other computer.

what is the reason for this??

[basiccomputerhelp]

there are a few reasons for this. one and most common is both computers are on different workgroups some older windows computers where MSHOME and others where WORKGROUP the workgroup name should be in your My Computer properties

the other is a firewall could be blocking access to the computer on your network

[duhwinghung]

well i know its not the firewall cause they both are turned off, both my laptop and pc are both Vista.. what would the problem be then? (the workgorup thing i left it as it is)

[basiccomputerhelp]

another question that you may have already done. but have you enabled file sharing on vista, in vista it is off by default. the settings are at 2:42

[duhwinghung]

erm yes im sure they are on,

[basiccomputerhelp]

well then i would have to say try manual access.

you can do it with \\COMPUTERNAME and see if it assess the computer

[duhwinghung]

sorry this may be a silly question but how do i do it manually

[basiccomputerhelp]

do you know your Computer Name. in your My Computer properties. Now that i think about it a lot of people that have more then one computer, have both computers with the same computer name and they have to be different.

but to do it manualy you need two backslashes \\ (make sure they are not / this slash) fallowed by your computer name

[TotallyRandomForever]

Nice video, too bad i dont have vista =[.

[basiccomputerhelp]

well i do try to describe the windows XP process in the video