I have a laptop with Vista Ultimate. I need to copy some files to an old laptop running Windows 95b. The old laptop does NOT have USB and its CD-ROM can’t read CD-RW. That leaves only floppy disk (too small) and burning files to CD-R, or ethernet for getting stuff onto the olde thing.
The old laptop’s drive has two FAT32 partitions, both are shared with NO password and FULL access enabled.
Vista says “You need permission to perform this action” when I try to copy any kind of file or folder to the old laptop.
Could Avast have something to do with this problem? I’ve been searching for hours for a solution, and mostly found hundreds (thousands??) of other users of all versions of Vista that refuses to copy some or all types of files to OR from network shares hosted on any other version of Windows- yet have no problems between those other versions or from Vista to Vista.
As far as I remember from those old days of Win9x you should enable user accounts on Win95, change sharing to user account controlled (from password protected), log in with the same account name as on vista, have the same password on win95 as on vista and it should work.
No connection between this and avast, as far as I know.
Lukor is right on this. If the laptiop has a network connection, you could connect the 2 systems with a x-over cable and transfer the files. Or hookup the laptop drive in the system and transfers files directly from one drive to the other. (last is the fastest way)
Edit:
Same user/password must excist on both systems for network to work.
But Win95 or 98 or Me shouldn’t need a password etc. By default when you select full access and no password, a network share on those is wide open to everything- except apparently for Vista. I’d call this a huge bug. Microsoft probably calls it a “feature”.
It’s like being unable to get into your house’s open front door, unless you first close and lock it then have to unlock it every time you want to go in or out.
NT based OS use users and passwords. If else fails, I think vista/XP may use the user Guest, but it is normally disabled under both XP and Vista, don’t know if this guest is somehow mapped to “no user, no password” or not. I think this has always been this way with NT connecting to W9x.
So what happens if you do set a User password on the 95b machine?
From somewhere in the deep dark recesses of my mind, I recall that Vista has no comprehension of an unsecured shared resource. It will always prompt for a password whether or not one exists, even to access an XP machine with ‘Simple File Sharing’ enabled. However, if the user names and passwords are the same on the host and client, then it should work. (Though I haven’t actually tried it.)
Alternatively you could install UltraVNC, which includes a file transfer function, on both machines.
I just tried setting a password on the D: drive on Win95. Vista popped up a login/password box but refused to accept Owner/stupid.
So I found the checkbox to enable remote administration and set the password there too- which I have never had to use with any version of Windows prior to Vista.
Now Vista acknowledges the login/pass but it still cannot copy files to Win95 or from Win95 to Vista. I mapped shared D: as a network drive then chose a file and dragged it to Vista’s hard drive. I had to hold it there a long time until it gave me the menu for copy, move etc. It’s still sitting there spinning the circle, been about five minutes without beginning to copy.
Before I mapped the drive, Vista was treating it like the Win95 system was a web or FTP server and handing off the “download” to Google Chrome! (The browser I’m using right now.)
Vista needs sent back to the shop to have its networking overhauled. Wow, it FINALLY is claiming it’s starting to copy the file… speed and time are “calculating”. And… it can’t do it. Claims there is a problem accessing the file. Yes, the problem is Vista!
Before you give up, try setting the same password and user name as the Vista machine on the 95 one. There’s a chance that Vista will just send the user credentials to the 95 “host” without prompting, just like 9X and XP Home will "log on " to an NT/Server domain controller.
I have an XP Pro “server” at home with various 95, XP & Vista clients but have never tried to swap files between 95 and Vista, except by UltraVNC file transfer.
