seperate data partition shared xp vista

Hi,
I am using Beta2 of Vista via MSDN.
I currently have 3 partitions on my hard drive, 1 for XP Pro, 1 for Vista and 1 for data. The data drive (E:) I want to be able to access and use from both XP and Vista.
In XP all I do is point 'my documents' at the root of my data drive and all is good, however in Vista I cannot seem to do this and I can get read access to my data drive which is not very useful. I could do a blanket permission change on my data drive but I would like to understand if there is a better way.
Thanks in advance.
Vortal

I've set my test system the same way, and have no trouble reading and writing to the "common data" partition, both from XP and Vista. Have you set the permissions at root folder level? The default permissions don't allow a non-admin to write to the root folder (which includes creating folders). -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"Vortal" a écrit dans le message de news: 2A1E1F71-A5E4-4EAF-A2A3-8E22AD5DA7B3@microsoft.com... | Hi, | | I am using Beta2 of Vista via MSDN. | | I currently have 3 partitions on my hard drive, 1 for XP Pro, 1 for Vista | and 1 for data. The data drive (E:) I want to be able to access and use from | both XP and Vista. | | In XP all I do is point 'my documents' at the root of my data drive and all | is good, however in Vista I cannot seem to do this and I can get read access | to my data drive which is not very useful. I could do a blanket permission | change on my data drive but I would like to understand if there is a better | way. | | Thanks in advance.

Try logging in as the administrator and checking the permissions to the drive.
"Pierre Szwarc" wrote:

I've set my test system the same way, and have no trouble reading and writing to the "common data" partition, both from XP and Vista. Have you set the permissions at root folder level? The default permissions don't allow a non-admin to write to the root folder (which includes creating folders). -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"Vortal" a écrit dans le message de news: 2A1E1F71-A5E4-4EAF-A2A3-8E22AD5DA7B3@microsoft.com... | Hi, | | I am using Beta2 of Vista via MSDN. | | I currently have 3 partitions on my hard drive, 1 for XP Pro, 1 for Vista | and 1 for data. The data drive (E:) I want to be able to access and use from | both XP and Vista. | | In XP all I do is point 'my documents' at the root of my data drive and all | is good, however in Vista I cannot seem to do this and I can get read access | to my data drive which is not very useful. I could do a blanket permission | change on my data drive but I would like to understand if there is a better | way. | | Thanks in advance.

Hi, My Documents is often latched down to the owning account, or the owning account and Administrators. To most simply share storage between boots grant premissions on the area to a built-in, such as to Users group; otherwise, grant to both users (the one from XP and the one from Vista) but do this without removing the untranslated SID (for the other boot). Roger
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Hi,
I am using Beta2 of Vista via MSDN.
I currently have 3 partitions on my hard drive, 1 for XP Pro, 1 for Vista and 1 for data. The data drive (E:) I want to be able to access and use from both XP and Vista.
In XP all I do is point 'my documents' at the root of my data drive and all is good, however in Vista I cannot seem to do this and I can get read access to my data drive which is not very useful. I could do a blanket permission change on my data drive but I would like to understand if there is a better way.
Thanks in advance.
Vortal