Windows Backup

Vista Business 32bit on a 3 machine network. The other two machines are
running WinXP Pro W/SP3.

I want to back up the Vista machine to a USB HD on one of the XP machines.
Vista's backup utility keeps telling me:

"The network share could not be accessed for the following reason:

You need Full Control permission for the network share. Make the user a
co-owner of the share with Full Control. The network share cannot be on a
computer running Windows XP Home. (0x8100002A)

Please ensure that the network location is valid."

Now, the USB drive is shared fully, it is a mapped drive on the Vista
machine. The Vista machine can read/write to the USB drive in normal usage.
The network share is not on a Windows XP Home machine.

WTF is wrong with MS? This doesn't need to be this damned difficult. It
never was before.

Sinner
Mon Jul 21 08:43:28 PDT 2008

Solved it myself. I had to turn off "Simple File Sharing" on the XP
machines, and set Permissions to Full on the shared drive.


"Sinner" <sinner@gatesofhell.org> wrote in message
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> Vista Business 32bit on a 3 machine network. The other two machines are
> running WinXP Pro W/SP3.
>
> I want to back up the Vista machine to a USB HD on one of the XP machines.
> Vista's backup utility keeps telling me:
>
> "The network share could not be accessed for the following reason:
>
> You need Full Control permission for the network share. Make the user a
> co-owner of the share with Full Control. The network share cannot be on a
> computer running Windows XP Home. (0x8100002A)
>
> Please ensure that the network location is valid."
>
> Now, the USB drive is shared fully, it is a mapped drive on the Vista
> machine. The Vista machine can read/write to the USB drive in normal
> usage. The network share is not on a Windows XP Home machine.
>
> WTF is wrong with MS? This doesn't need to be this damned difficult. It
> never was before.
>