I have 4 computers at home networked with a prolink h9200router and a Prolink Switch

3 PCs ahve Vista and My gaming Pc has Windows Xp

PC 1 - vista ultimate
PC 2 - Vista home premium
PC 3(dads new desktop) - Vista home premium
Pc 4 - winXp pro service pack 3 RTM

so my dads new PC(PC 3) i installed the OS and every thing was ok and then my dad wanted to share Drive D:\
So i did but funny thing is its not accessable

Not frm anyPC on the network

I have Network discovery On
file sharing -On
PPS - off
and Public folder sharing - on

its visible other PCs but the Shared folders ar not accessbale Except for the Public folder

and i cant connect frm other Pcs to this frm remorte Desktop

but shared Printers Works every thing Works Except fr these two

Pleaase HElp

Iturned the firewall and the defender OFF same Resutls

please HElp me

@sparky. Not necessarily

And it can be another system partition, or data partition, or another hard drive.

D drive IS the second HDD partision that My dad USe for DATA storing

and I put fullControl for every one In the permissions dialog

Please HElp me

you might try for testing turning off the windows firewalls

Guys, the OP said in his first post that he turned off firewalls and Windows Defender.

@hellfire: pipo asks a good question, do you have password-protected logons on any of these systems?

Can any of the other systems share network folder, for example, between PC 1 and PC 2? Are all systems set to the same Workgroup? Vista is picky about the Workgroup name, and it will go smoother if they all match.

As for Remote Desktop, you can't remote to a system with Vista Home Premium, but you can remote view or control from it.

@hellfire: please remove the curse words from your post. It's against the forum rules and there are no age restrictions here.

I was disappointed, too, when I found that Home Premium could not act as a Remote Desktop server. They want you to buy Ultimate. There is no way that I know to install it separately.

As for the network file sharing, it's not a bug in Vista but the added security makes it more difficult. Some people bash Vista for a perceived lack of user-friendliness and others bash MS for poor security. Problem is that these 2 goals are in conflict. Anyway, I have a home network with Vista Home Premium, and I can share folders around so it does work. We just need to get your settings right.

You never answered this: can you share network folders between any of the other systems?

@hellfire: have you tried using password protected sharing (PPS)? I have a private network on my home LAN, I use PPS and it works. When I first setup up folder sharing, I read up about it and followed the instructions from this MS TechNet article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/e.....27037.aspx

This article talks about "simple file sharing" where you turn off PPS and use a Guest account, but I haven't tried that. Either way, that article is the best description of Vista file (and printer) sharing that I have seen.