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Originally Posted by llama64
I absolutely hate the way file sharing is setup in Vista. Looks like they tried to mimic Apple's method of making it mostly automatic -- cept it just doesn't work.
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The strange thing is my old machine I had serving the media and the Vista laptop had no problems reading it. Then I built a new Vista64 machine and suddenly I couldn't share media. I figured I must have something wrong on the new desktop since the laptop worked fine before. Then a couple weeks ago I inherited an old laptop that had XP on it, and lo and behold it sees the Public folder on the desktop just fine.
MS has gotten into the habit of trying to make everything really easy. And that is awesome IF it works. When it doesn't, they have hidden/moved all the complexity (where you used to be able to figure out the issues) and it is tough to trouble shoot.
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