On Zack's excellent Vista Knowledge Base under Sharing files and folders in Vista it says
"You can type in users on another computer as well, so if Bob on "laptop3" wanted to access, you can type in LAPTOP3\Bob (so the computer name, backslash then username). "
I have tried this multiple times on multiple machines (currently have 3 Vista beta2 machines up in a wired workgroup). It so far hasn't worked for me, is there something I'm missing?

Can't add non local user to share
It seems that sharing in Beta 2 is slightly broken apparently. Sorry :o(
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--: Original message follows :-- "Shay" wrote in message
On Zack's excellent Vista Knowledge Base under Sharing files and folders in Vista it says
"You can type in users on another computer as well, so if Bob on "laptop3" wanted to access, you can type in LAPTOP3\Bob (so the computer name, backslash then username). "
I have tried this multiple times on multiple machines (currently have 3 Vista beta2 machines up in a wired workgroup). It so far hasn't worked for me, is there something I'm missing?
I'm almost glad it's broken, at least I know I wasn't missing something obvious :)
"Zack Whittaker" wrote in message
It seems that sharing in Beta 2 is slightly broken apparently. Sorry :o(
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!
--: Original message follows :-- "Shay" wrote in message On Zack's excellent Vista Knowledge Base under Sharing files and folders in Vista it says
"You can type in users on another computer as well, so if Bob on "laptop3" wanted to access, you can type in LAPTOP3\Bob (so the computer name, backslash then username). "
I have tried this multiple times on multiple machines (currently have 3 Vista beta2 machines up in a wired workgroup). It so far hasn't worked for me, is there something I'm missing?
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