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Yes I really am sure Vista!
Yes I really am sure Vista!
It’s been one of those mornings. What should have been a fairly simple task of enabling file sharing and print sharing on Fiona’s new Vista PC turned into a stressful couple of hours. All logic as far as security is concerned seems to be totally thrown out the window when it comes to Vista. When you tick a box to enable file and print sharing and you get that pop-up that asks you if you are sure you want to do that and you click yes—you’d think the OS would get the hint that you want to share your printer. But no, it doesn’t. So you go into firewall settings and disable the firewall settings for print sharing, to allow other people to access your computer. And Windows Vista asks you, are you sure you want to do that and you click yes. You’d think it would work then. But no! You then go into the OneCare, the Microsoft firewall and virus protector software, (you even have to click yes, I really do want to open OneCare). You disable the file and print sharing firewall settings to again allow people to connect to the printer. It gives you another warning – are you sure? You click yes, again. And still print sharing doesn’t work. You then have to go into the Advanced Options and tell Windows Vista—check this out people:

If the files and printers on this computer are shared:
SHARE THEM!!!!!!

Just take a look at the screenshot below. It absolutely amazes me that you have to go to this level of security modification to share a printer on a private network!


Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007.
Posted by fiona.
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