how do I allow all of my home network computers to share   

All drives and files.
3 computers, all on a wired network
only this computer is Vista, I am the administrator

how do I tell the drives on this computer to share with all others?

please and thank you

date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:48:45 -0500   author:   FireBrick

Re: how do I allow all of my home network computers to share   

This how to may help.
How to share files or a folder in Vista
      How to share files or a folder on Windows Vista. Beside Public folder 
sharing, you can share files or a folder on your computer. ...
      www.howtonetworking.com/vista/sharingfolders.htm


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"FireBrick"  wrote in message 
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> All drives and files.
> 3 computers, all on a wired network
> only this computer is Vista, I am the administrator
>
> how do I tell the drives on this computer to share with all others?
>
> please and thank you

date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:44:49 -0500   author:   Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)

RE: how do I allow all of my home network computers to share   

Vista will not allow Drive sharing.
Read Networking XP and Vista info below

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx

Have a read of the above link re Vista File and Printer Sharing.

Permissions/Share info is there as well.

If using Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro I.S., make sure file and printer 
sharing is enabled in THEIR firewall (or LAN allowed, depending on how their 
Exceptions are worded in their Firewall)

1st thing to do is make sure that the Workgroup Name of ALL the computers is 
the SAME.

In Vista Network and Sharing:

Network Discovery: ON (So it can see the other computers) 

Network set to Private (Public is for hotspots, airports, etc)

File Sharing: ON

Public Folder Sharing: ON (Vista’s Public Folder is the same as XP’s Shared 
Docs)

Password Protected: OFF (unless you want to set up identical usernames and 
passwords (passwords can be different) on ALL computers in your Network) If 
you have it ON, you will be asked for a username and password when you try to 
access a Vista computer from an XP computer, or a Vista computer.

-- 
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"FireBrick" wrote:

> All drives and files.
> 3 computers, all on a wired network
> only this computer is Vista, I am the administrator
> 
> how do I tell the drives on this computer to share with all others?
> 
> please and thank you
>

date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:22:00 -0700   author:   Mick Murphy