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Joseph Spain
Good afternoon,
I have a home network consisting of two PCs. Each one is running Windows
XP Pro SP1a as the OS. Both PCs are connected via a Linksys router using
ethernet cables. With one PC, I have a 120 GB Iomega external USB 2.0
HDD connected to it. It is designated as drive G. With the other PC, I
have a 120 GB Iomega external USB 2.0 HDD connected to it. It is
designated as drive H. I have simple file sharing enabled on both PCs,
and have shared both of these drives.
The problem: One of the external HDDs (drive H on PC2) becomes unshared
following every restart. This requires me to reshare the drive again each
time.
Solutions I have tried that haven't been successful:
* I have turned off simple file sharing, restarted, shared the drive
again, and restarted again. Upon restart, I check the drive in Windows
Explorer and find the drive has become unshared again.
* I have tried to share an individual folder and file from the shared
drive. Upon restart, the folder and the file become unshared along with
the drive.
* I have completely unshared everything on both computers, restarted,
completely formed a new workgroup, added both PCs to the new workgroup,
restarted, shared specific drives, files, and folders as before, and
remapped to them as before. All shared items on the one PC still becomes
unshared following a restart, including its external USB device, drive H.
The other PC remains fully shared, including its external USB device,
drive G.
Other notes:
* All accounts on both machines have full administrator rights.
* When I disabled simple file sharing and shared the drive, I ensured the
drive was shared to "everyone."
* I have always had the Windows XP firewall disabled.
* I previously had Norton Internet Security Professional 2004 installed
and I recently uninstalled it. The problem seemed to begin and coincide
with the removal of this product. Before I removed the product, I could
share the drive, and this behavior did not occur. However, I also removed
Norton Internet Security Professional 2004 from the other PC, and this
behavior does not occur on that one.
* I prefer not to reformat the drive and reinstall Windows on the
"problem" PC if at all possible. I will use that option as my very last
resort.
Any help or suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated. Please
feel free to respond here in this newsgroup, or to me personally at...
i c y s t o r m a t c o x d o t n e t (to respond, remove all spaces and
replace "at" with "@" and "dot" with ".")
Thanks again.
Joseph
I have a home network consisting of two PCs. Each one is running Windows
XP Pro SP1a as the OS. Both PCs are connected via a Linksys router using
ethernet cables. With one PC, I have a 120 GB Iomega external USB 2.0
HDD connected to it. It is designated as drive G. With the other PC, I
have a 120 GB Iomega external USB 2.0 HDD connected to it. It is
designated as drive H. I have simple file sharing enabled on both PCs,
and have shared both of these drives.
The problem: One of the external HDDs (drive H on PC2) becomes unshared
following every restart. This requires me to reshare the drive again each
time.
Solutions I have tried that haven't been successful:
* I have turned off simple file sharing, restarted, shared the drive
again, and restarted again. Upon restart, I check the drive in Windows
Explorer and find the drive has become unshared again.
* I have tried to share an individual folder and file from the shared
drive. Upon restart, the folder and the file become unshared along with
the drive.
* I have completely unshared everything on both computers, restarted,
completely formed a new workgroup, added both PCs to the new workgroup,
restarted, shared specific drives, files, and folders as before, and
remapped to them as before. All shared items on the one PC still becomes
unshared following a restart, including its external USB device, drive H.
The other PC remains fully shared, including its external USB device,
drive G.
Other notes:
* All accounts on both machines have full administrator rights.
* When I disabled simple file sharing and shared the drive, I ensured the
drive was shared to "everyone."
* I have always had the Windows XP firewall disabled.
* I previously had Norton Internet Security Professional 2004 installed
and I recently uninstalled it. The problem seemed to begin and coincide
with the removal of this product. Before I removed the product, I could
share the drive, and this behavior did not occur. However, I also removed
Norton Internet Security Professional 2004 from the other PC, and this
behavior does not occur on that one.
* I prefer not to reformat the drive and reinstall Windows on the
"problem" PC if at all possible. I will use that option as my very last
resort.
Any help or suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated. Please
feel free to respond here in this newsgroup, or to me personally at...
i c y s t o r m a t c o x d o t n e t (to respond, remove all spaces and
replace "at" with "@" and "dot" with ".")
Thanks again.
Joseph