SimpleTech Network Drive Password Wont Work In Vista

[roystreet]

Hello, I have a SimpleTech network drive on my network. At one time when I used XP on my machine I can map the drive as you would usually map a password protected drive - No problem. Now I have Vista on my machine & I try to map a password protected drive, it will fail.
I believe it has to do with some type of security functionality & here's why...If the drive has a portion password protected, I can navigate over to it & click on it. It will then request a username & password. I enter both in & it will always fail to log into it - I can't see it. But...If that portion has no security, I can navigate to the portion, click on it & it opens right up. I can map that to my machine also - No problemo! So, I'm quite sure it has something to do with maybe Vista's firewall that I just don't understand yet, but that's just a suspicion.

I call it "Portion" because it is like a partition on the network drive.
Any ideas on this?

Thanks,
---roystreet
Edit/Delete Message

 

[linney]

File and Printer Sharing in Windows Vista

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/evaluate/vista_fp.mspx#E5B

This unknown quote might be useful?

"Share permissions define the permissions for the file share.
NTFS permissions (set on the security tab of the folder) define permissions on the folder and files/folders within it.

The overall permissions the user account gets are the most restrictive of the two combined."

 

[roystreet]

Thanks for your assistance Linney, but I'm not sure that this is going to assist since I am unable to set permissions on the networked HD. To log in via XP, I believe the username is "Guest" & then you inputted the password. I may be missing it, but it doesn't appear as this webpage is telling me how to log into another HD.

I hope I'm making sense here.

Thanks Again,
---roystreet

 

[linney]

Incompatible with Vista, so says one comment here?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822100016

Perhaps you should check that possibility too?

Sorry about the confusions, just that I am not familiar with the hardware and terms you mentioned. O.K. so I thought a "Simple Tech" was a Technician's Drive, I have days like that.

Here are some more bits and pieces, these might help a bit more I hope?

Why can't I access my NAS (Network Attached Storage) share, Macintosh (MAC) share, linux share, or a share from an old version of Windows

http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Networking/ntlm.aspx

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...rk+Drive++Vista&rnum=2&hl=en#6e14bf155c4abdaf