Vista to Vista networking??? are you kidding me?

> OK I've been spending the most part of today trying to network two Vista
> Ultimate systems.
>
> So far I fell like I've been tripping on acid. I hate to say it, and usually
> love MS product but are you f**** kidding me?
>
> Seriously, is this some bad joke?
>
> Here is my setup and what I'm trying to do:
>
> 1) 2 Windows Ultimate systems (desktops) with TV Tuner (one is onboard dual
> tuner, other is USB ATI 650). 1 Xbox 360 media extender.
> 2) Main media center has 3 drives (C (install), E: Recorded TV and F:
> Multimedia files).
> 3) I have E and F shared, full permission.
> 4) Second media center has E and F mapped.
>
> Problems:
> 1) Besides avi/divx files constantly crashing Media Center (kinda of
> annoying but can't blame that on MS, it's as much divx's fault), I'm having
> issues open some files that I transfer from my second media center to the
> other (videos won't play, giving me codec error).
> 2) I also attempted to transfer a pile of files back and got some error
> about quotas!!!! Quotas are completely turned off, there is 20GB left on the
> Multimedia drive.
> 3) That's the part where I really feel I'm about to lose it: I click on my
> mapped Recorded TV drive (on my second media center) and it opens its OWN
> Recorded TV folder (local, not on the network). Worse part is that the mapped
> drive shows the right about of disk space so I know it's looking at the
> network location but it doesn't open it... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
> 4) ya got some more issues... can't seem to be able to play recorded shows
> from one system to another (drag and drop file). Not sure if it's related to
> some divine crapness or if it's an actual design crapture of DRM.
>
> Anyways, I figured I would ask here, maybe some enlighted mind can attempt
> to answer!

>OK I've been spending the most part of today trying to network two Vista
>Ultimate systems.
>
>So far I fell like I've been tripping on acid. I hate to say it, and usually
>love MS product but are you f**** kidding me?
>
>Seriously, is this some bad joke?
>
>Here is my setup and what I'm trying to do:
>
>1) 2 Windows Ultimate systems (desktops) with TV Tuner (one is onboard dual
>tuner, other is USB ATI 650). 1 Xbox 360 media extender.
>2) Main media center has 3 drives (C (install), E: Recorded TV and F:
>Multimedia files).
>3) I have E and F shared, full permission.
>4) Second media center has E and F mapped.
>
>Problems:
>1) Besides avi/divx files constantly crashing Media Center (kinda of
>annoying but can't blame that on MS, it's as much divx's fault), I'm having
>issues open some files that I transfer from my second media center to the
>other (videos won't play, giving me codec error).
>2) I also attempted to transfer a pile of files back and got some error
>about quotas!!!! Quotas are completely turned off, there is 20GB left on the
>Multimedia drive.
>3) That's the part where I really feel I'm about to lose it: I click on my
>mapped Recorded TV drive (on my second media center) and it opens its OWN
>Recorded TV folder (local, not on the network). Worse part is that the mapped
>drive shows the right about of disk space so I know it's looking at the
>network location but it doesn't open it... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
>4) ya got some more issues... can't seem to be able to play recorded shows
>from one system to another (drag and drop file). Not sure if it's related to
>some divine crapness or if it's an actual design crapture of DRM.
>
>Anyways, I figured I would ask here, maybe some enlighted mind can attempt
>to answer!