Re: how do you share root of drive?

"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%239sBe1ChGHA.4712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
AMDX2 wrote:

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.

You are misunderstanding user accounts in a multi-user operating system
such as XP. You always have the built-in Administrator account. You
then set up as many user accounts with whatever privileges you want. If
you want to do networking successfully in a Workgroup, you make
identical user accounts on each machine and you assign passwords. You
can always set XP to boot automatically to your desired account if you
want. You don't need to be logged into the same user account on each
machine in order to share resources as long as the user/password
requesting resources exists on the target machine. Workgroup computers
authenticate either by allowing guest access (as discussed previously)
or by checking to see if the user exists on the local system.

So, let us start again.

1. Create identical user accounts/passwords on all computers.

2. Make sure the Simple Sharing setting matches. For simplicity if all
computers are XP Pro, disable this. You will find the setting in Folder
Options>View.

3. If desired, set computers to log in automatically to desired account.

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

4. Unshare everything on all computers and reboot. Now create a share,
say "computer_nameD", make sure Everyone has full permissions. If all
computers are on the same subnet (ex. 192.168.1.xxx) you will be able
to share files.

If you are still having difficulties, either take the time to go through
MVP Hans-Georg Michna's network troubleshooter as previously suggested:
http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm

or have a local professional come on-site and set you up. You are doing
something wrong and without being able to see you or your machines, it
is difficult to pinpoint the issue.

I understand that you are frustrated, but there is nothing "stupid ass"
about the ability to set permissions in XP; it works just fine. If you
are too agitated to go on with this today, be smart and go do something
you like instead. You will not cause the heat death of the Universe if
you don't get your shares done today. ;-)

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


Simple sharing was on on one pc and i totally thought I disabled that. guuess not. to auto log in a user i didn't know of right now since I've not done that in so long I've totally forgotten. Right now one pc is vista beta 2 and the other is xp pro. on the pc that has vista beta 2 is also xp pro on another hard drive, so i can dual boot. I think i fixed it by disable simple sharing and re sharing drives and doing the new share plus clicking permissions to give everyone full access. i just forgot about the simple sharing.

i wasn't agitated or anything, just thought the multiple user thing is stupid since I'm the only user and this has worked always before without me having to create a user since xp says joe already has access which is always my user account in xp. but in the past I've always stopped simple sharing.

I've re did the sharing now on my xp pc so I'm going to try it and report back what happens.

.

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