I meant what are the ACLs of the C:\Users\you\Videos and above folders on Win7?

XRaySpeX,

Yes, as I said I'll check out the ACLs of the C:\Users\you\Videos and above folders on Win7 etc. etc. later - got some editing of the videos I shot yesterday to do on that machine this evening.

Just thought the current status of XP Shared Documents folder and mp4 file might be relevant to the setting I made during the XP safe boot

OK. Sorry, I confused which post you were replying to.

Interesting: On my XP <-> Vista setup the ACLs of a Vista Shared non-Public Folder includes an entry for "MyVistaPC\MyVistaUserName". However when I CACLS this Vista Folder from XP, that entry appears as "<Account Domain not found>", which makes sense as my XP will have no awareness of Vista's user names. All the rest of the Vista's folder's ACL entries are recognised from XP as they are all generic, like "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK".

So it looks as if your Win7 shared folder could have ACL entries for "foreign" users.

Edited by XRaySpeX (Mon 15-Aug-11 22:31:40)

XRaySpeX,

You may find this interesting from my Win7 machine:

C:\Users\me>cacls C:\Users\me\Videos
C:\Users\me\Videos NT SERVICE\WMPNetworkSvc:(special access: )
READ_CONTROL
SYNCHRONIZE
FILE_GENERIC_READ
FILE_READ_DATA
FILE_READ_EA
FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES

NT SERVICE\WMPNetworkSvc:(OI)(CI)(IO)(special access: )
READ_CONTROL
SYNCHRONIZE
FILE_GENERIC_READ
FILE_READ_DATA
FILE_READ_EA
FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTE

<Account Domain not found>(OI)(CI)R
<Account Domain not found>(OI)(CI)R
<Account Domain not found>(OI)(CI)R
<Account Domain not found>(OI)(CI)R
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(ID)F
BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(ID)F
My-PC\me:(OI)(CI)(ID)F


C:\Users\me>cacls C:\Users\me
C:\Users\me NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)F
BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)F
MY-PC\me:(OI)(CI)F
<Account Domain not found>R
<Account Domain not found>R
<Account Domain not found>R
<Account Domain not found>R
<Account Domain not found>R


C:\Users\me>cacls C:\Users
C:\Users NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)F
BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)F
BUILTIN\Users:R
BUILTIN\Users:(OI)(CI)(IO)(special access: )
GENERIC_READ
GENERIC_EXECUTE

Everyone:R
Everyone:(OI)(CI)(IO)(special access: )
GENERIC_READ
GENERIC_EXECUTE

I will look into all the other stuff later when I've finished editing my video...

Edit: had to put a few spaces in to stop emoticons!

Edited by 4M2 (Mon 15-Aug-11 21:24:22)

So, ACL for "NT SERVICE\WMPNetworkSvc" appears 1st at level C:\Users\me\Videos.

And ACLs for "<Account Domain not found>" appears 1st at level C:\Users\me.

Which folder is the one shared? I presume C:\Users\me\Videos?

XRaySpeX,

No folders are shared on my Win7 machine - however I do have these public folders which are part of the Library: C:\Users\Public\Documents, C:\Users\Public\Music, C:\Users\Public\Pictures, C:\Users\Public\Videos. Those folders and contained files are accessible from the XP machine (folders are read only.) No other Win7 drives, folders nor files can be seen nor opened from the XP machine.

To transfer files across the network I copy to the network drive known as Documents (\\XP Computer's name) (Z: ) on the Win7 machine. This is in effect the XP Shared Documents folder to which the Win7 machine has full control. Win7 can not see nor access any other drives, folders nor files on the XP machine.

Edited by 4M2 (Tue 16-Aug-11 02:08:47)

XRaySpex,

This might interest you from the Win7 machine (not all the text copied to notepad but I think you may be able to follow it) :

C:\Users\me>cacls C:\Users
C:\Users NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)F
BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)F
BUILTIN\Users:R
BUILTIN\Users:(OI)(CI)(IO)(special access: )
GENERIC_READ
GENERIC_EXECUTE

Everyone:R
Everyone:(OI)(CI)(IO)(special access: )
GENERIC_READ
GENERIC_EXECUTE



C:\Users\me> cacls C:\Users\Public
C:\Users\Public BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)F
CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)F
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)F
NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE:(OI)(CI)(IO)(special ac
DELETE
READ_CONTRO
SYNCHRONIZE
FILE_GENERI
FILE_GENERI
FILE_GENERI
FILE_READ_D
FILE_WRITE_
FILE_APPEND
FILE_READ_E
FILE_WRITE_
FILE_EXECUT
FILE_DELETE
FILE_READ_A
FILE_WRITE_

NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE:(special access: )
READ_CONTROL
SYNCHRONIZE
FILE_GENERIC_READ
FILE_GENERIC_EXECUTE
FILE_READ_DATA
FILE_WRITE_DATA
FILE_APPEND_DATA
FILE_READ_EA
FILE_EXECUTE
FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES

NT AUTHORITY\SERVICE:(OI)(CI)(IO)(special access
DELETE
READ_CONTROL
SYNCHRONIZE
FILE_GENERIC_RE
FILE_GENERIC_WR
FILE_GENERIC_EX
FILE_READ_DATA
FILE_WRITE_DATA
FILE_APPEND_DAT
FILE_READ_EA
FILE_WRITE_EA
FILE_EXECUTE
FILE_DELETE_CHI
FILE_READ_ATTRI
FILE_WRITE_ATTR

NT AUTHORITY\SERVICE:(special access: )
READ_CONTROL
SYNCHRONIZE
FILE_GENERIC_READ
FILE_GENERIC_EXECUTE
FILE_READ_DATA
FILE_WRITE_DATA
FILE_APPEND_DATA
FILE_READ_EA
FILE_EXECUTE
FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES

NT AUTHORITY\BATCH:(OI)(CI)(IO)(special access: )
DELETE
READ_CONTROL
SYNCHRONIZE
FILE_GENERIC_READ
FILE_GENERIC_WRIT
FILE_GENERIC_EXEC
FILE_READ_DATA
FILE_WRITE_DATA
FILE_APPEND_DATA
FILE_READ_EA
FILE_WRITE_EA
FILE_EXECUTE
FILE_DELETE_CHILD
FILE_READ_ATTRIBU
FILE_WRITE_ATTRIB

NT AUTHORITY\BATCH:(special access: )
READ_CONTROL
SYNCHRONIZE
FILE_GENERIC_READ
FILE_GENERIC_EXECUTE
FILE_READ_DATA
FILE_WRITE_DATA
FILE_APPEND_DATA
FILE_READ_EA
FILE_EXECUTE
FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES

Everyone:(OI)(CI)F


C:\Users\me>cacls C:\Users\me
C:\Users\me NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)F
user-PC\user:(OI)(CI)F
BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)F


C:\Users\me> cacls C:\Users\me\Videos
C:\Users\me\Videos NT SERVICE\WMPNetworkSvc:(OI)(CI)(special a
READ_CONTR
SYNCHRONIZ
FILE_GENER
FILE_READ_
FILE_READ_
FILE_READ_

NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(ID)F
My-PC\me:(OI)(CI)(ID)F
BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(ID)F


C:\Users\me> cacls C:\Users\me\Videos\clearcloud.mp4
C:\Users\me\Videos\clearcloud.mp4 NT SERVICE\WMPNetworkSvc:(ID
: )



AD



BUTES

NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(ID)F
My-PC\me:(ID)F
BUILTIN\Administrators:(ID)F

BTW The directory C:\Users\Public is shared but the Public folders are not.

Also, as you can see, I cleaned out those "Account Domain not found " entries from C:\ User\me, C:\User\me\Videos and C:\User\me\Videos\clearcloud.mp4.

PROBLEM SOLVED!

Several posts on other forums had recommended I try disabling Media Streaming on my Windows 7 PC which I had tried but without success. I have just made another attempt and discovered that I should have disabled the devices on 'All Networks' as well as 'Local Networks'. Since I did this and rebooted my PC I can now access all computers on my network. What baffles me though is that by way of experiment I re-enabled 'Media Streaming' and I still have access to all the computers on the network. This indicates to me that it is high time Microsoft brought out a fix for 'Media Streaming' that would save us all a lot of time. As usual, Microsoft takes your money then leaves you to sort out the bugs.

My thanks to everyone who subscribed to this post ... I hope in some way it has helped those who have experienced the same problem I've been trying to solve for more than two months.

Edited by deleted (Tue 23-Aug-11 16:12:54)