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jtesdall
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You need to setup file sharing on your Vista Laptop. I think maybe setting up the laptop as C from your PC is not what you meant. If it is, then it would be very hard and not advisable to do that. Network drives are usually setup as F on.
Anyway search the internet for setting up file sharing on vista. Then you can browse your new network from windows explorer on your XP desktop and map the drive. All of this should be in help or searchable on the internet.
Anyway search the internet for setting up file sharing on vista. Then you can browse your new network from windows explorer on your XP desktop and map the drive. All of this should be in help or searchable on the internet.
jtesdall
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You need to find Windows Explorer. Start-Programs-Accessories
Then click on network to browse the computers on the network.
Find your PC and the drive you shared. Then right click on the drive and select map drive.
I forgot to say - you need to set the Network Identification of both computers to be the same workgroup like "HOME".
Then click on network to browse the computers on the network.
Find your PC and the drive you shared. Then right click on the drive and select map drive.
I forgot to say - you need to set the Network Identification of both computers to be the same workgroup like "HOME".
One last note regarding file sharing on Vista computers. Vista is very heavy into security, consequently, the only folders you can share (that can be seen and copied/moved/etc) on your Vista laptop must be placed in the "public documents" folder.
So if your trying to pull files out of the laptop (Vista) using the PC (XP), your PC is only going to "see" the folder called Public Documents. Going the other way, the Vista computer will see the entire root directory of XP as long as you have enabled file sharing (on the XP computer)
You can by-pass the Vista security (so you can share the root directory) by editing the system registry in Vista, but it is NOT a simple edit, and I don't recommend it. (It can be found by google - "Vista share root directory")
We just found this out at last month at work, as I built 4 - Vista64 systems, and discovered you could not share the root directory (like you can on previous versions of Windows). It was a royal pain, as I thought I had done something wrong, then discovered it was part of Vista's layered security. Now that we're used to it, it's no big deal.
P.S. I give 2 thumbs up to Vista 64 (Ultimate). It's smoking fast, no driver problems, and was the easiest most un-complicated install of ANY Windows I've ever had. (I've been building computers for my business for about 10 years) One other FANTASTIC thing about Vista... it notes any files that have been updated during the day, and creates shadow copies of those files during shut down. So if at noon the next day, you lose all of a file you were working on, you can go to "file" "restore previous version" and it will restore it to the previous shutdown. (I had a programmer lose 4 days of work - we found the restore previous function, and he only ended up losing 4 hours of work... that itself paid for all 4 copies of Vista!)
So if your trying to pull files out of the laptop (Vista) using the PC (XP), your PC is only going to "see" the folder called Public Documents. Going the other way, the Vista computer will see the entire root directory of XP as long as you have enabled file sharing (on the XP computer)
You can by-pass the Vista security (so you can share the root directory) by editing the system registry in Vista, but it is NOT a simple edit, and I don't recommend it. (It can be found by google - "Vista share root directory")
We just found this out at last month at work, as I built 4 - Vista64 systems, and discovered you could not share the root directory (like you can on previous versions of Windows). It was a royal pain, as I thought I had done something wrong, then discovered it was part of Vista's layered security. Now that we're used to it, it's no big deal.
P.S. I give 2 thumbs up to Vista 64 (Ultimate). It's smoking fast, no driver problems, and was the easiest most un-complicated install of ANY Windows I've ever had. (I've been building computers for my business for about 10 years) One other FANTASTIC thing about Vista... it notes any files that have been updated during the day, and creates shadow copies of those files during shut down. So if at noon the next day, you lose all of a file you were working on, you can go to "file" "restore previous version" and it will restore it to the previous shutdown. (I had a programmer lose 4 days of work - we found the restore previous function, and he only ended up losing 4 hours of work... that itself paid for all 4 copies of Vista!)
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For Vista to see any XP computers on the network the XP computers must be SP2 and you need to install the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder (KB922120) on the XP machines. You can get it here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...1D-EE46-481E-BA11-37F485FA34EA&displaylang=en
It worked for me, I have a Vista laptop and several xp machines networked at home and at work. I had to do this to every xp machine, windows doesn't automatically download this update so you have to do it manually.
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For Vista to see any XP computers on the network the XP computers must be SP2 and you need to install the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Responder (KB922120) on the XP machines. You can get it here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...1D-EE46-481E-BA11-37F485FA34EA&displaylang=en
It worked for me, I have a Vista laptop and several xp machines networked at home and at work. I had to do this to every xp machine, windows doesn't automatically download this update so you have to do it manually.
Philby
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11223974#post11223974 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SnkyJake
P.S. I give 2 thumbs up to Vista 64 (Ultimate). It's smoking fast, no driver problems, and was the easiest most un-complicated install of ANY Windows I've ever had. (I've been building computers for my business for about 10 years) One other FANTASTIC thing about Vista... it notes any files that have been updated during the day, and creates shadow copies of those files during shut down. So if at noon the next day, you lose all of a file you were working on, you can go to "file" "restore previous version" and it will restore it to the previous shutdown. (I had a programmer lose 4 days of work - we found the restore previous function, and he only ended up losing 4 hours of work... that itself paid for all 4 copies of Vista!)
I'm wondering if this is specific to Vista? Currently at work we're all on windows XP, and we have the previous version functionality on our network drives (not sure what our server's OS are...) but it doesn't look like we have it on our C drive (which I never use anyway, and I don't have admin rights so I'm not sure if the functionality is not available or just turned off).
Not that I really care either way - I'm a MAC guy at home
although my "reef server" is gonna be my GFs old windows PC because aquanotes doesn't run on OSX and since that will basically be the only thing I need windows for I'd rather re-use an old machine that buy software to allow me to boot to XP on my macbook. Hopefully I can find a cheap wireless adapter somewhere on Friday so I can tinker with that while my tanks are cycling!Tricky question...Yes and no to being specific to Vista. Yes, in that Vista creates the "shadow" copies on your hard drive (on a personal PC) whereas previous Windows versions did not. But no it's not specific to Vista in a NETWORK environment.
This is because in a network environment, there are usually multiple hard drives on the main server, that can be configured in a RAID array. RAID basically treats multiple hard drives as one hard drive in different manners. Manner A (the most common) is set up to redundantly copy data amongst all the hard drives, so if one hard drive fails, the data is not lost as it's been redundantly written to the other hard drives (sort of like an auotmatic back up). Or Manner B (much faster read/write of data to hard drive, and not as common) where it can be set up to "split" the data to two or more hard drives. It virtually doubles the hard drives' speed (thus your read/write access), but if one hard drive fails, you lose the data off both hard drives.
So to answer your question, in a network environment, Vista was not the first/only to create shadow copies.
I've gotta go sit down.... all this computer geek talk is making me dizzy!:rollface:
