Re: how do you share root of drive?

"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eiX%233ABhGHA.4304@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


That is exactly how I do it yet I still get the you need permission to access this folder. I right click on a drive like D: and go to the share place. When it says click here if you understand and just want to share, I click that and do a new share. I type D and I select to make it so anyone can change files and folders. I hit ok/apply. Go to other pc and get permission denied errors. One thing is I won't create users on my pcs because I'm the only one doing this and I just use my windows account which is made when installing windows of course.

.

Loading