Problem sharing external (USB) drive with XP Pro

[Dataptr]

I have a home LAN consisting of an XP nPro (XPP) desktop, an XP Home
(XPH) desktop, a Vista wireless laptop and an Ubuntu wireless desktop.

XPP and XPH have external USB drives in addition to their internal ones.

I have set up sharing using the article by Ron Lowe and Steve Winograd
at
<http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/whole.htm>,
but while the XPP external drive is visible from the other computers, it
is not accessible.

Simple file sharing is off at XPP and the Guest account is disabled.
Each machine has an account with the same username.

I've gone through the Lowe/Winograd article and I'm pretty sure I've
done everything they say, but I still get that "you don't have
permission..." error message.

Troubleshooting suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Dataptr]

Dataptr has written on 6/9/2008 9:15 PM:

I have a home LAN consisting of an XP nPro (XPP) desktop, an XP Home
(XPH) desktop, a Vista wireless laptop and an Ubuntu wireless desktop.

XPP and XPH have external USB drives in addition to their internal ones.

I have set up sharing using the article by Ron Lowe and Steve Winograd
at
<http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/whole.htm>,
but while the XPP external drive is visible from the other computers, it
is not accessible.

I should point out that shares on the XPP's internal HDs are both
visible and accessible!

 

[Steve Winograd]

I have a home LAN consisting of an XP nPro (XPP) desktop, an XP Home
(XPH) desktop, a Vista wireless laptop and an Ubuntu wireless desktop.

XPP and XPH have external USB drives in addition to their internal ones.

I have set up sharing using the article by Ron Lowe and Steve Winograd
at
<http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/whole.htm>,
but while the XPP external drive is visible from the other computers, it
is not accessible.

Simple file sharing is off at XPP and the Guest account is disabled.
Each machine has an account with the same username.

I've gone through the Lowe/Winograd article and I'm pretty sure I've
done everything they say, but I still get that "you don't have
permission..." error message.

Troubleshooting suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks.

What exactly are you clicking when you get the "you don't have
permission..." error message?

Can you map a network drive to a shared folder?

Some things to check:

1. Create matching user accounts (same user name and same password) on
each computer.

2. Make sure that the both the share permissions and the NTFS file
systems permissions allow access by the desired users, as described
here:

WinXP Pro File Sharing - NTFS Permissions
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/07ntfs-permisions.htm
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[Dataptr]

Steve Winograd has written on 6/10/2008 2:19 AM:

What exactly are you clicking when you get the "you don't have
permission..." error message?

On the Vista box, I can see in \\PJH-8400\ (that's the XPP machine),

h (the external drive of the XPP machine )
h-downloads (a directory on that external drive)
h-Software (another directory on that external drive)

I right-click on h and select "Map Network Drive". I get a pop-up
"attempting to connect to \\pjh-8400\h..." and then one that says that
mapping failed because there was not enough server storaage to process
this command.

Simply double-clicking on any of the above listed shares give no response.

Some things to check:

1. Create matching user accounts (same user name and same password) on
each computer.

Checked and double-checked. I can access the internal drive on
\\pjh-8400 but not the external one.

2. Make sure that the both the share permissions and the NTFS file
systems permissions allow access by the desired users, as described
here:

WinXP Pro File Sharing - NTFS Permissions
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/07ntfs-permisions.htm

Both everyone and the common username have all permissions.

Again, it's only the external drive on the XPP that I cannot access.

Thanks.

 

[Steve Winograd]

On the Vista box, I can see in \\PJH-8400\ (that's the XPP machine),

h (the external drive of the XPP machine )
h-downloads (a directory on that external drive)
h-Software (another directory on that external drive)

I right-click on h and select "Map Network Drive". I get a pop-up
"attempting to connect to \\pjh-8400\h..." and then one that says that
mapping failed because there was not enough server storaage to process
this command.

Simply double-clicking on any of the above listed shares give no response.


Checked and double-checked. I can access the internal drive on
\\pjh-8400 but not the external one.



Both everyone and the common username have all permissions.

Again, it's only the external drive on the XPP that I cannot access.

Thanks.

The "not enough server storage" message usually indicates the specific
problem that this Microsoft Knowledge Base article describes. Try the
fix that it gives on the computer named "pjh-8400":

Antivirus Software May Cause Event ID 2011
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;177078
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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[Dataptr]

Steve Winograd has written on 6/10/2008 3:54 AM:

The "not enough server storage" message usually indicates the specific
problem that this Microsoft Knowledge Base article describes. Try the
fix that it gives on the computer named "pjh-8400":

Antivirus Software May Cause Event ID 2011
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;177078

Increasing that parameter from 15 to 18 did the trick!

Why would this affect on that computers external drive and not the
internal ones?

Thx.

 

[Steve Winograd]

Increasing that parameter from 15 to 18 did the trick!

Why would this affect on that computers external drive and not the
internal ones?

Thx.

You're welcome. I'm glad that my suggestion helped you solve the
problem. I don't know why it affected the external drive but not the
internal ones.
--
Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
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