I've made a sharing for my girlfriend to backup some data, but she
can't write-access it, even if, when I mount it as a network share on
her WinXP Home SP2 laptop, I set "log on as a different user" and I
give "VISTACOMPUTER\mylogin" / my_password.

I just installed 5308, and I am having DNS errors. I can ping and surf to IP
based addresses, but I cannot get to named addresses. I have disabled IPv6
functionality, tested with both dynamic and static IP address, setting DNS
servers to both my router and to my ISP's servers. I ...

I am trying to set up a Home network.
Basically two machines
1)Vista CTP 5308>AMD Athlon 2800+/MSI motherboard/512 MB/80GBHDD/nVidia
GeForce 5600 128MB/ 3Com USB Wireless 802.11g/Realtek PCI Ethernet card

is it possible to join with Vista into an excisting local XP Network?? If
yes, how do i have to do this??

I successfully(?) installed 5308 on my main workstation the other night, got
my wirless adapter working and set up the IPv4 properties as I usually do
for other computers on my network (static, unique IP; gateway set to my
wireless ADSL router; DNS set to my PDC) and quite ...

Can Vista share folder with win98 under a workgroup?
I try the traditional way and it don't work. I turn off firewall.

Is there anyway to install the admin tools from Windows 2003 server into
Vista.  I'm using build 5308.
Thanks.

I want to block internet access for certain user group under Windows XP
Home, Pro, 2000. Is this feature avaible under Windows? or is there any
software can do this?
Thanks

Does anyone have the Longhorn Server version of remote desktops or know
where to get it?
Or can you fool current Windows 2003 Adminpak to install ?
Thanks

In XP, I could create a network folder that was an ftp, so I could quickly
drag and drop at any time. I can't figure out how to do this in Vista, does
anyone know?

Will you be able to join to multiple domains using Windows Vista?
TIA
Tim

I've been working with proxy configuration for a while in XP.  In the builds
up to 5270 of Vista the familiar old 'proxycfg' utility existed for
configuring WinHTTP service access to internet via proxy.  In today's 5308
build I notice that this utility has vanished and a new ...