Sharing a drive on a Windows 7 machine and accessing it from a Vista machine

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OK, I'm simply trying to share the D drive on my Windows 7 Pro machine, and access it from my Vista machine.

On the Windows 7 PC I right click on the D drive and go into advanced sharing and share the drive, giving all priv.

I then look over the network on my vista machine, click the windows 7 pc, click the D drive I can see, and get "Windows cannot access \\serverpc\d". The diagnostics give "error code 0x80070005 Access is denied."

What am I missing?


If I share an individual folder (on the Windows 7 PC), it also pops up to the Vista PC on the network browser, but I get the same error if I then try to open it.


NOTE: I have "password protected sharing" turned off! This was the only was I could get the printer on that machine shared I believe!?
 
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