Sharing the whole of the C drive.

[Bruce Jacobs]

I have a client who has a small network and wants to share all of the C
drive of his Vista Home Premium computer read/write to all of the other
computers on the network. Vista does not make this easy. I have not yet
tried turning off UAC. The environment is three XP computers peer-to-peer
and now one Vista machine. (I know this is a very bad idea, but that is
what he wants)

Thanks

 

[william.hooper]

Don't think it sounds like a bad idea... If you have a three machines
on your home network that belong to you then why not share all the
drives - saves a lot of messing about. I am going to try it myself!

 

[Guest]

The simple sharing option isn't available for the root directory of any
drive. You need to select "Advanced Sharing" and then check "Share this
folder".

 

[Bruce Jacobs]

It is bad in that if one of the machines gets infected, it will have
visibility and write access to the system folders of the all the other
machines. Boom all your machines are history.

I can see all the document folders being shared, however C:/Windows....

 

[Bruce Jacobs]

I had tried Advanced Sharing. It says it works, you can even see the shares
you created from other machines. However when you try to access them you
get access denied message (sorry I do not have the exact text of the
message)

I have set the sharing access permissions to full for everyone and that did
not help. If I browse down far enough I can share individual folders in the
users document area, but not the higher folders.

 

[Guest]

I too am trying to share an entire drive from my VISTA machine with my Home
Network, not my C:, but a large storage drive.

All of my other machines are XP, and they can see the shared drive in My
Network, but I also get the "Access Denied" when I try to access. I can use
the easy share and share individual folders from the drive with no problem,
but not the entire drive.

I have the permissions set for EVERYONE with full access, but I still get
denied.

Anyone have an idea?

 

[Guest]

Actually just answered my question..

Since it is a ROOT, easy share doesnt work...

After you make the share, you need to go into the SECURITY section of the
drive and add EVERYONE to the permissions.

This of course has generated another question...

In the permissions, is there a way to restrict access to only users within
your network...like add /computername/everyone or /workgroup/everyone as
opposed to only everyone for additional security?

 

[Adam Albright]

I too am trying to share an entire drive from my VISTA machine with my Home
Network, not my C:, but a large storage drive.

All of my other machines are XP, and they can see the shared drive in My
Network, but I also get the "Access Denied" when I try to access. I can use
the easy share and share individual folders from the drive with no problem,
but not the entire drive.

I have the permissions set for EVERYONE with full access, but I still get
denied.

Anyone have an idea?

Are you sitting down? Everyone doesn't mean everybody. Oh I know,
these goofy NTFS permissions will drive you daft. Solution? While I
haven't tried it, probably try turning UAC off, which requires a
reboot, then Vista should behave like XP as far as allowing file
access. I hope for your sake it does. <wink>