I'm an experienced Windows user, but I just can't figure this one out.  I'm the sole 
user and administrator on my 4 computers (3=XP Pro, 1=Vista Premium Home), and I 
also have Network Attached Storage and a Network Attached Printer.

 I have plenty of shared drives and folders and printers -- most of them with full 
access privileges -- but while some of them work perfectly as expected, some of them 
do not!

My big problem right now is the username and password prompt that comes up in Vista 
(at least) whenever I try to use most any shared folder/drive, even those that I 
gave full access rights to.  No matter what I try, Vista keeps telling me I've entered 
the wrong user/pass!  I've tried the Windows logon user/pass and every other user/pass 
I can think of, but no dice, even though I'm the only user and admin of all the machines!

Help, please?

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Have you enabled THE administrator account in Vista rather than just an administrator account? By default THE administrator account is considered by Gates to be too powerful for us mere mortals to be given control over ! Here's how - Type cmd in search area of start menu, right click cmd at top and click run as administrator, in command prompt type :(very carefully)net user administrator /active:yes and press enter. Close command prompt and then log off in start menu. You should see your new real administrator account next to your other accounts. You should then have complete control over everything.


On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 9:43 pm, amby19 wrote:
>I'm an experienced Windows user, but I just can't figure this one out. I'm the sole
>user and administrator on my 4 computers (3=XP Pro, 1=Vista Premium Home), and I
>also have Network Attached Storage and a Network Attached Printer.
>
> I have plenty of shared drives and folders and printers -- most of them with full
>access privileges -- but while some of them work perfectly as expected, some of them
>do not!
>
>My big problem right now is the username and password prompt that comes up in Vista
>(at least) whenever I try to use most any shared folder/drive, even those that I
>gave full access rights to. No matter what I try, Vista keeps telling me I've entered
>the wrong user/pass! I've tried the Windows logon user/pass and every other user/pass
>I can think of, but no dice, even though I'm the only user and admin of all the machines!
>
>Help, please?

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I had M.S. enable THE administrator account and even gone in and manually given permissions to the files and folder related to this type of behavior. I even named the same Workgroup as Vista has issues with different workgroup accounts working together and I still get random and sporadic access. By the way when did Bill Gates take back of the control of M.S.? He was totally against this type of thing, taking away user ability. It was the board that took Bill's place that wanted to make it more like Applesauce! I would love for Bill to be in control. When he left, that's when all hell broke loose down there.

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