On 3/5/2013 2:35 AM, Nil wrote:
The directory structure was changed as of Windows Vista and later. In
XP and earlier, user profiles used to be in a folder called "\Documents
and Settings". Now they are in "\Users". What appears to be a folder
with the old name is just a placeholder for the use of old applications
that have that name hardwired in. If you try to open them, you'll get
that misleading error message, "access denied."
I think I understood this. I guess the assumption is that when a program
looks for \documents and settings\mike\my documents\my music, Win7
actually puts the file in the \users\mike\whatever folder. But once it
gets into this mode, I get "access denied" with those folders as well.
I'm weary. I think I'm going to take Frank's approach and just keep this
computer for testing with things (for example, Pro Tools 10) that
require Win7 and move files in and out via sneaker net. Heck, the
computer only cost me twenty bucks at a hamfest.
The trick to networking both XP and Vista/7/8 computers is to turn of
the "Homegroup" feature on the Vista/7/8 computer and use simple
networking. The Homegroup feature doesn't work with XP.
Yes, I figured that out. William suggested that I look at the "Windows 7
Annoyances" book (there's a free PDF download) and there, In that book,
he says that in order to access files or folders over the Internet, you
must have a password. I had set it up with no password so I didn't have
to type it in whenever I booted (which, as you might suspect, was very
frequently). This could explain why a login popped up when trying to
access a shared folder from another computer on the network. But what
didn't make sense was that one computer popped up with the login name
filled in, and when I typed my password, it gave me access. However, on
another computer on the same network, the pop-up didn't have the name
filled in, and when I entered the same name (with the computer name) as
on the one that worked, it told me that the user name or password was
incorrect.
Microsoft has made it over-complicated, and it's not documented very
well. But once you have made a few adjustments, it all works well.
I guess I'm not there, yet. I'll admit that I've had some
inconsistencies with WinXP networking too, for years, which I've never
fixed. I can only transfer files in one direction between one pair of
computers. I can't get a file from A to B from B, but I can send the
file on A from A to B.
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