Dave Zass
I have a home network all set up, seems to be working fine.
I can access all shared folders and files on the network
EXCEPT for data on an external USB hard drive.
Is there something special that needs to be done? I have it
set as shared and it can be seen fine on the network. I just
can't access it. ... Any ideas?
I had the same problem once before. I hope u understand my
english (I kown, I have to improve it), to follow this
recommendations - Check up:
1.) follow the instructions.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;177078
2.) check the settings of your firewall. If u are using personal
firewalls at clients, you better deinstall and instead you
configure your internet-services (german 'Dienste' are in
english services, right? protocolls? - anyway) to minimice
your attack-areas. At this place u should also find an
english version of germans firewall-FAQ:
http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/Firewall.html
3.) run the network setup wizard at each of your clients (if one
of your clients got a membership of a workgroup that others
dont have, better dont run it). So make sure that all clients
are in the same workgroup and now you have to turn on the
"simple file sharing" (Win-Explorer Tools->Folder options->
select the view tab and uncheck "use simply file sharing"
and opt. for PW protected shares) on every machine in your
network. Otherwise you use the same account name and same
PW to log on at your PC's. Now it should work. So if you
decided to make your root drive on the pc get shared, and
to run the network wizard (if you are using WinXP, you have
to create a guest account), after action make sure to get
unshared your root directory again.
