How share removable drives consistently ?

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Pivert

Hi all,

already posted several times, no answer yet. Hope someone has an idea !

I have a big external firewire drive which I bought to serve as a backup
unit for my home LAN ( 3 PCs)
Now the problem is that the shares to my son's and daughter's reserved
partitions ( full access granted) disappear as soon as I reboot my PC !!

So each time they want to access the drive I have to once again re-instate
the shared status !

Using XP-SP1a and "simple file sharing"

Any suggestion ?
- would like to preserve the shared status : possible ? where are these data
stored in registry ( coul import when booting ?)
- any way to re-share with some scripting at each boot ? ( drive is allways
auto-started when I boot PC)

Hope someone gets a good idea to help !

Phil
 
Pivert said:
Hi all,

already posted several times, no answer yet. Hope someone has an idea !

I have a big external firewire drive which I bought to serve as a backup
unit for my home LAN ( 3 PCs)
Now the problem is that the shares to my son's and daughter's reserved
partitions ( full access granted) disappear as soon as I reboot my PC !!

So each time they want to access the drive I have to once again re-instate
the shared status !

Using XP-SP1a and "simple file sharing"

Any suggestion ?
- would like to preserve the shared status : possible ? where are these
data
stored in registry ( coul import when booting ?)
- any way to re-share with some scripting at each boot ? ( drive is
allways
auto-started when I boot PC)

Hope someone gets a good idea to help !

Phil
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Hi Phil

I'm going to follow this thread with interest as I was getting this whilst I
was also experiencing authentication issues (see 2 threads up). The whole
thing is a mystery to me.

- Jerry
 
Pivert said:
Hi all,

already posted several times, no answer yet. Hope someone has an idea
!

I have a big external firewire drive which I bought to serve as a
backup unit for my home LAN ( 3 PCs)
Now the problem is that the shares to my son's and daughter's reserved
partitions ( full access granted) disappear as soon as I reboot my PC
!!

So each time they want to access the drive I have to once again
re-instate the shared status !

Using XP-SP1a and "simple file sharing"

Any suggestion ?
- would like to preserve the shared status : possible ? where are
these data stored in registry ( coul import when booting ?)
- any way to re-share with some scripting at each boot ? ( drive is
allways auto-started when I boot PC)

Hope someone gets a good idea to help !

Phil
Click to expand...

Does the external drive always get the same drive letter?
I personally like to disable Simple File Sharing anyway and set the security
up manually.
 
Does the external drive always get the same drive letter?
I personally like to disable Simple File Sharing anyway and set the
security
up manually.
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I've seen that option somewhere and now can't find it. Where is it?

- Jerry
 
Yes allways same letters.
If I abandon simple file sharing, would this problem disappear ?

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
 
Option for simple file sharing is in explorer -> tools -> options ->
display -> last checkbox is simple files sharing : uncheck it.
Then you will have to define user rights for each user / share
 
Have shifted from "simple sharing" to manual security settings. Will see if
that works !
Thanks
Phil

Pivert said:
Yes allways same letters.
If I abandon simple file sharing, would this problem disappear ?

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<[email protected]> a écrit dans le
message de news:[email protected]...
Does the external drive always get the same drive letter?
I personally like to disable Simple File Sharing anyway and set the security
up manually.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Done one reboot and restart of removable drive : shares seem to have
persisted ! Hope that continues so.

Pivert said:
Have shifted from "simple sharing" to manual security settings. Will see if
that works !
Thanks
Phil

Pivert said:
Yes allways same letters.
If I abandon simple file sharing, would this problem disappear ?

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<[email protected]> a écrit dans le
message de news:[email protected]...
Pivert wrote:
Hi all,

already posted several times, no answer yet. Hope someone has an idea
!

I have a big external firewire drive which I bought to serve as a
backup unit for my home LAN ( 3 PCs)
Now the problem is that the shares to my son's and daughter's reserved
partitions ( full access granted) disappear as soon as I reboot my PC
!!

So each time they want to access the drive I have to once again
re-instate the shared status !

Using XP-SP1a and "simple file sharing"

Any suggestion ?
- would like to preserve the shared status : possible ? where are
these data stored in registry ( coul import when booting ?)
- any way to re-share with some scripting at each boot ? ( drive is
allways auto-started when I boot PC)

Hope someone gets a good idea to help !

Phil

Does the external drive always get the same drive letter?
I personally like to disable Simple File Sharing anyway and set the security
up manually.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
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