Re: how do you share root of drive?

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AMDX2 wrote:


Firewall is off on all pcs as there's no need when I'm behind my
internet security appliance. All is WORKGROUP.
I can see pcs fine, just not open folders because of the stupid ass no
permission even though the drives are totally open and shared as much
as possiblle. home and pro are the same for making your hard drive or
a folder shared. i dont see how there would ever be a difference. but
im talking pro.

Home and Pro are not the same since Home only offers Simple Sharing
(guest) and Pro allows you to disable guest. Make sure all your
computers are using the same setting for Simple Sharing. I always
disable Simple Sharing since guest is a security hole and I have a
mixed OS network. Since you have a peer-to-peer Workgroup, create
identical user accounts/passwords on all machines.

Right-click on your C drive. Do not try and share an administrative
share (C$). Instead, click the New Share button and create a new share
such as "computer_nameC". Set permissions accordingly, making sure that
Everyone has the control you wish to permit.

This works just fine on my XP Pro boxen.

Malke
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