2 peer issues

jblynch wrote:

>
> It used to be a simple matter of turning on the hard of a hard drive and
> you were home. In my situation now:
>
> 1. My 2nd floor Win 2000 pc can't get into my Vista 64 drives even
> though I've gone through all the settings I can find to share
> everything.
>
> 2. On my primary Vista 64 machine that now has a separate Vista 32
> drive, the 64 setup can see the 32 drive but not the other way around
> that I needed.

1. It doesn't matter that the operating systems are disparate when
transferring data over a TCP/IP network. Make sure you've created matching
user accounts and passwords on all computers. You do not need to be logged
into the same account on all machines and the passwords assigned to each
user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just need to exist
and match on all machines. DO NOT NEGLECT TO CREATE PASSWORDS, EVEN IF ONLY
SIMPLE ONES. If you wish a machine to boot directly to the Desktop (into
one particular user's account) for convenience, you can do this. The
instructions at this link work for both XP and Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

2. I don't know the answer to your second question about the dual-booted
machine, but do #1 in each operating system and see if that fixes things.
Otherwise I'm sure someone running a dual-boot like yours will answer.

Malke
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