eSATA Device Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Network

[Lesa H.]

I hope this is the correct group for this question. Here this the
configuration:

- 2 Windows XP Professional workstations in a Peer-to-Peer network
- 1 eSATA drive chassis with removable SATA hard drive connected to one of
the workstations. The chassis remains connected to this unit and only the
drives are swapped.
- The eSATA drive and chassis works perfectly on the unit it is connected
to.
- The drive is shared and the permissions are good (and has been tested with
the 3 drives we have for rotation). When the drives are changed out they
show up as shared and the permissions look fine in the Sharing and Security
properties pages. It also always retains the correct drive letter.

Here is the problem. When it is shared initially all is well. The other
workstation can access the share on the device without an issue. As soon as
the drive is swapped in the device, the user can see the share but it
reports a permission problem when trying to add a file to the share or
otherwise doing anything with the share. If we remove the share and recreate
it, all is well again until the next drive change.

Has anyone seen this before? We previously had this working with 3
individual USB connected drives. I have been unable to figure out why we are
having this problem.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Lesa

 

[Vincent Xu [MSFT]]

Hi,

Thanks for posting.

As I understand, you are using a SATA Hot-Swap controller.Right? Please
check Windows XP recognize it as a removeable device or fixed drive?

For this hardware related issue, I'd like to suggest you replace a new
hardware for test as you said previously had this working with 3 individual
USB connected drives.


Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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