Sharing folders in Vista can be difficult. Vista will allow the permissions to be set, even though you have to do it manually by Right Clicking, then hitting "share", and manually setting the permissions to everyone, but then when you try to access the folders from a remote computer, it will say "access is denied".

Here's how to share the root of a drive under Vista: (ie: Drive D: or E: Not Drive c: or the Vista OS drive)
(Note that Vista will not let you change permissions on certain folders.)

This may take time to apply the changes toall the files permissions.

• In the Start menu click Computer
• Right click on the drive and click on properties
• Click the security tab
• Click Edit
• Click Add
• Click Advanced
• Click Find Now
• Scroll down and Select "Everyone"
• Click OK and OK
• Select the permissions you want
• Click Apply ; Click OK