Although solved I cannot explain. I have a new Dell desktop with
Vista Home Premium SP1 (64) with Workgroups changed to MSHOME to match
my older Dell running XP-HOme. Vista Networking and Sharing Control
configured as Private and all Sharing 'On\\\\" except Password. No
problem mapping to my XP's C, D and E partitions. Although Documents and
Setting would open, not the \\\\"myfile\\\\" sub folder where I wanted
to view Favorites and move some to my new computer.
After much trial and error found that if I specifically selected the
Favorites folder and under properties chose Sharing and selected option
to share, I then was successful at least in mapping this folder and
transferring necessary files although I still could not open if
attempted through the mapped C drive where I could not get beneath the
Documents and Setting folder.
Would appreciate anybody who might help explain what certainty turned
out to be a fine workaround for for my problem
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Ed Bitzer
Microsoft Windows Vista