Sharing Drive under XP on home network

[Guest]

Under Sharing and Security I've made root of a drive available to my home
network (no domain). The problem is none of the folders on the drive are made
available for sharing. I have to share each folder individually. Can I make a
drive available and all of the folders on the drive with one step?

 

[Guest]

Hi Chris,

When you type from run \\machine-name\share-name do you mena you can't see
any folders at all that are on the drive ?

J

 

[Guest]

I think what he means is this:

On computer 2 I right click on the C drive and set it to share with the
network. But When I'm on computer 1 and I go to My Network Places I CAN open
the C drive but CAN'T open any of the folders in it. So C drive is ok. But
not any of the folders on it. I am experiencing the same problem. I get this
error message:

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\\Josephcpu\c\Documents and Settings\ is not accessible. You might not have
permission to use this network resource. Contact your administrator of this
server to find out if you have access permissions.

Access Denied.
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I need to know how to share every single folder and every single file
without doing them all one by one. Should there not be one button or
something to share ENTIRE COMPUTER on the network? Something of the sort...

Anyways, Help us out please

Paul

 

[Al Romanosky]

There are two folder/file sharing provisions - Share permissions and NTFS
permissions. NTFS permissions are available with the NTFS file system and
Win XP Pro and not XP Home edition. NTFS permits or denies sharing of
individual folders and files and propagation from folders through
sub-folders. Win xp Home default setting is "simple file sharing" (which
can be toggled off/on). Share permissions with XP Home only permit
assignment to folders and not individual files a.g. if folder is given read,
change or full control permissions - it apply to all files in that folder.
Also with share permissions you cannot deny access to any user e.g. all
users can access share. (There is an exception - you can make a folder
"private' which cannot b e accessed. So - kind of a long winded essay - 1.
file and print sharing must be "activated' 2. Search "Help and Support" for
info on simple file sharing.

 

[Guest]

First thing to chek is the permissions on the share itself - you need to
ensure that the user that is trying to access the shares has permissions for
this. If the user has permissions then check the security tab and ensure they
have permissions in this as well.

Joe.