Sharing folders basic question..

[developmental2]

Hi all...
my query is this: I have a home network with several win2k computers
linked with a router and tcp/ip protocol.
Of course only one is set as browsemaster. I have set up accounts for
each machine, and sharings of the local drives only with those
accounts- no "shared to everyone" shares- which all the others use to
access each other's drives with mapped drives. ( I want each machine to
be able to access all the others). I have noticed that some machines
access the others with no problems, but one machine gives an "access
denined" error when I try to browse its drive from another machine,
with a mapped drive to it. It only works when I add the $ symbol to the
end of the drive mapping command (Net use X: \\testmachine\D$ ...) .
I have read a little bit on the web on this, and concluded that the
necessity to add $ means the foreign machine does not let its resources
show on the network directory, and so it seems safer?
So I want to know how do I make all the other machines respond only to
mapping with the $ symbol (if indeed that is safer?)


Thanks

 

[Kurt]

Hi all...
my query is this: I have a home network with several win2k computers
linked with a router and tcp/ip protocol.
Of course only one is set as browsemaster. I have set up accounts for
each machine, and sharings of the local drives only with those
accounts- no "shared to everyone" shares- which all the others use to
access each other's drives with mapped drives. ( I want each machine to
be able to access all the others). I have noticed that some machines
access the others with no problems, but one machine gives an "access
denined" error when I try to browse its drive from another machine,
with a mapped drive to it. It only works when I add the $ symbol to the
end of the drive mapping command (Net use X: \\testmachine\D$ ...) .
I have read a little bit on the web on this, and concluded that the
necessity to add $ means the foreign machine does not let its resources
show on the network directory, and so it seems safer?
So I want to know how do I make all the other machines respond only to
mapping with the $ symbol (if indeed that is safer?)


Thanks

The D$ share is an administrative share and is created by Windows.
Anyone with an administrative account can access these shares. If your
users can access the admin shares but not the share you created (from
your post you imply that you shared the drive as "D"), I suspect you
either have a share permissions problem or an NTFS permissions problem.
The most common way of setting up shares is to make the share
permissions "Everyone - Full Control", and set restrictive permission
policies at the filesystem level (on the security tab). Also, make sure
you didn't accidentally type a space or other invisible or unprintable
character in the share name. "D" looks just like " D" or "D ").

....kurt

 

[jansant]

You can hide any share by adding "$" to the end of the share name.
permissions are applied in the normal manner. Adding "$" to the end of
the name simply stops the share from showing up in the browse service
of other machines. Anyone who knows of its existence, path, and has
permission can access it. During install hidden shares are created with
administrator access and are called administrative shares. The problem
sounds like a permission based issue, check your NTFS permissions also.
wayne

http://admin.jansant.com/pages/permissions/permissions.html
http://admin.jansant.com/pages/permissions/win2000ntfs/ntfspermissions.html
http://admin.jansant.com/pages/permissions/win2000share/sharepermissions.html

 

[developmental2]

sounds like a permission based issue, check your NTFS permissions also.

Thanks for the responses, alas its not NTFS...all of the PC's have
FAT32 I forgot to mention.
And where is this 'Security' Tab you speak of...?

Thanx

 

[Bob I]

Thanks for the responses, alas its not NTFS...all of the PC's have
FAT32 I forgot to mention.
And where is this 'Security' Tab you speak of...?

Thanx

Not available on FAT32, that file system doesn't support "security".