Re: Can't see shared drive after conversion to NTFS

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:30:02 -0700, couture57
<couture57@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been doing some "tweaking" with my computer in anticipation of
upgrading from XP Pro to Server 2003. This computer is one of 4 on a home
network. Three are XP Pro and one is XP 2005 Media Edition (I assume that is
XP Home).

I converted one of the drives on this machine from FAT32 to NTFS, and now
none of the other machines can access it. The drive shows up in their list
of Network Places, but when they click on that drive name, they pop up the
message that says "Access is denied, you don't have permission", etc.
I have checked the file sharing properties for that drive and they are
identical to the sharing properties on my other drives ( which ARE accessible
to the other computers). I have tried removing the share, restarting, then
creating it again. Still no luck.
"Simple file sharing" is turned off on all machines. I have had no problem
sharing drives and folders between the machines until now.
Just to be sure, I checked my firewall settings, but there is nothing in
there (either the Norton firewall or the router firewall) that pertains to
specific drives.

I have searched all over the MS Knowledge Base and this forum and can't
figure out what I'm missing. Can anyone help?

TIA

Check Sharing AND Security, from the Properties wizard.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/09/server-access-authorisation.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/09/server-access-authorisation.html

Then dig deeper, using NTRights.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/advanced-file-sharing-tweaks-in.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/advanced-file-sharing-tweaks-in.html

Are you using an administrative account to access the share, thru the network?
Do you have a non-Guest account setup on all computers, with identical password,
activated for network use? If you setup the new share, you did it using an
administrative account. Make sure that you have equal access from all client
computers.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Activate>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Activate

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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
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