Yes it’s different
Along with Windows Vista comes a couple of interesting “quirks”, one of them is the Filesharing is a little bit different than XP. A couple of notes about Filesharing in Vista:
- You cannot share the Program Files folder (don’t know why) if Anyone knows of a work around let me know!
- In order to share you need to add guest to your permissions list (see tutorial below)
Alright so assume you have a folder named Bob in your C:/ directory, navigate to C:/ and right click on the Bob Folder:
Select properties, then click on the Sharing tab:
Click the Share button, now comes the different part. From the Dropdown menu select Guest and click on ‘Add’.
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For some reason by default when you share a folder you share it with yourself (woohoo i’ve shared my own computer files with myself!) When you add a guest it works the same as XP
So now if you are on another Computer on the same network you can either click on Start > Network and find the computer that is sharing the computers or click on Start > Run (Windows Key + R) and type in two backslashes plus the Computer Name, so if your computer was named MrSmee (not case sensitive) you’d type in \\mrsmee and press ok.
Tip
To find your computer name, right click on ‘My Computer’ Select Properties Look for Computer Name.
I hope that helps, let me know if you have any questions in the comments