File Shares Disappearing

[aivlys]

I'm having trouble with the basic file shares and thus all file shares on my
laptop. It seems that my file shares - even the Shared Documents folder - do
not retain their shares. I've tried with 'simple file sharing' both enabled
and disabled and have the same results. I share a folder (and the icon
changes like it has shared and I can quickly see it from my desktop) and then
maybe 10 seconds later the share is gone - both from the desktop and on the
laptop. If I check shares in Computer management/Shared Folders/Shares it
does not show them but briefly. BTW, I can see shared printers.

How did I get to this state? Not sure... I think this has been happening
for awhile as I sync my desktop and laptop and from time to time have to
reset things for sharing (although never had to re-share a folder) I'm
running TuneUp Ultilities and it suggested I had unsafe shares with unlimited
access and did I want to clean those up. I said yes and since then have not
been able to share anything on the laptop. I tried backout out the chages in
TuneUp Utilities but it has made no difference.

I'm running XP Pro with SP3. I've checked everything I can think of to
compare my desktop (where sharing works fine) with my laptop. Thoughts on
where to start in tracking this down?

 

[Pegasus]

I'm having trouble with the basic file shares and thus all file shares on
my
laptop. It seems that my file shares - even the Shared Documents folder -
do
not retain their shares. I've tried with 'simple file sharing' both
enabled
and disabled and have the same results. I share a folder (and the icon
changes like it has shared and I can quickly see it from my desktop) and
then
maybe 10 seconds later the share is gone - both from the desktop and on
the
laptop. If I check shares in Computer management/Shared Folders/Shares it
does not show them but briefly. BTW, I can see shared printers.

How did I get to this state? Not sure... I think this has been happening
for awhile as I sync my desktop and laptop and from time to time have to
reset things for sharing (although never had to re-share a folder) I'm
running TuneUp Ultilities and it suggested I had unsafe shares with
unlimited
access and did I want to clean those up. I said yes and since then have
not
been able to share anything on the laptop. I tried backout out the chages
in
TuneUp Utilities but it has made no difference.

I'm running XP Pro with SP3. I've checked everything I can think of to
compare my desktop (where sharing works fine) with my laptop. Thoughts on
where to start in tracking this down?

Perhaps looking at the technical side of things will shed some light on this
issue. I would do this:
- Click Start / Run / cmd {OK}
- Type these commands:
net share{Enter}
(it will show all existing shares)
regedit.exe{Enter}
(Navigate to HKLM/system/CurrentControlSet/services/lanmanserver/shares.
All existing shares are defined here.)