Re: Problem sharing external (USB) drive with XP Pro
- From: Steve Winograd <bc070521m@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:54:58 -0600
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:58:40 -0400, Dataptr <juanwei26@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I have a home LAN consisting of an XP nPro (XPP) desktop, an XP Home
(XPH) desktop, a Vista wireless laptop and an Ubuntu wireless desktop.
XPP and XPH have external USB drives in addition to their internal ones.
I have set up sharing using the article by Ron Lowe and Steve Winograd
at
<http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/whole.htm>,
but while the XPP external drive is visible from the other computers, it
is not accessible.
Simple file sharing is off at XPP and the Guest account is disabled.
Each machine has an account with the same username.
I've gone through the Lowe/Winograd article and I'm pretty sure I've
done everything they say, but I still get that "you don't have
permission..." error message.
Troubleshooting suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks.
What exactly are you clicking when you get the "you don't have
permission..." error message?
On the Vista box, I can see in \\PJH-8400\ (that's the XPP machine),
h (the external drive of the XPP machine )
h-downloads (a directory on that external drive)
h-Software (another directory on that external drive)
I right-click on h and select "Map Network Drive". I get a pop-up
"attempting to connect to \\pjh-8400\h..." and then one that says that
mapping failed because there was not enough server storaage to process
this command.
Simply double-clicking on any of the above listed shares give no response.
Some things to check:
1. Create matching user accounts (same user name and same password) on
each computer.
Checked and double-checked. I can access the internal drive on
\\pjh-8400 but not the external one.
2. Make sure that the both the share permissions and the NTFS file
systems permissions allow access by the desired users, as described
here:
WinXP Pro File Sharing - NTFS Permissions
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/07ntfs-permisions.htm
Both everyone and the common username have all permissions.
Again, it's only the external drive on the XPP that I cannot access.
Thanks.
The "not enough server storage" message usually indicates the specific
problem that this Microsoft Knowledge Base article describes. Try the
fix that it gives on the computer named "pjh-8400":
Antivirus Software May Cause Event ID 2011
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;177078
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