Can't Share The Windows Vista C Drive - Why?

[Guest]

Folks,

I have finally got my two Windows XP PCs and my new Windows Vista PC to
network just fine. Sharing amongst the PCs is working well. However, there
is one annoyance. I have set my Window Vista PC’s C Drive to advance sharing
and it appears to accept this. However, when I attempt to access the C-drive
share from my WXP machines, it states I don't have permission to bring it up,
etc. I did the same advanced share process on an external hard drive
(Iomega) attached to the Vista PC and at the Windows XP PCs, it comes up just
fine for viewing and manipulation. What am I missing here? Permissions have
been granted to be full for that C-Drive. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

From XP computer, run command line. The run this command: cacls *.* to check the permission.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
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Folks,

I have finally got my two Windows XP PCs and my new Windows Vista PC to
network just fine. Sharing amongst the PCs is working well. However, there
is one annoyance. I have set my Window Vista PC’s C Drive to advance sharing
and it appears to accept this. However, when I attempt to access the C-drive
share from my WXP machines, it states I don't have permission to bring it up,
etc. I did the same advanced share process on an external hard drive
(Iomega) attached to the Vista PC and at the Windows XP PCs, it comes up just
fine for viewing and manipulation. What am I missing here? Permissions have
been granted to be full for that C-Drive. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Michael Bell [MSFT]]

What are the Folder permissions on the C drive set to? You can find this by
doing the following:

1. Open Computer
2. Right click on the shared drive and select properties from the context
menu
3. Select the Security Tab in the displayed properties sheet.

The permissions on a file share are actually the combination of the Share
Permissions (set when creating the share) and the folder permissions. When
the Advanced Sharing option is used, only the share permissions are set, and
when the "Network File and Folder Sharing" option is used both are set
correctly.

The reason that it doesn't work only on the Vista drive is that Vista has
restricted the permissions on the drive in order to make it more secure. On
XP machines the everyone group had permissions on the drive by default in
Vista it doesn't and Users are only given read permissions for most of the
operating system drive including the root of the drive.

If you are not using passwords when sharing files, you need to give the
everyone group permissions on the folders of the drive that you want to be
able to access from the share. Be careful when doing this since this will
give anyone on your network the ability to access the share in this manner.

I hope that this helps.

Thanks,
Mike

 

[Bob Lin \(MS-MVP\)]

Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

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