HELP: XP Pro File Sharing on Router

[integramodder]

I have a desktop and a laptop which are wirelessly connected to the linksys WRT54G Router in the living room. All together there are usually 8 or 9 computer on the router (wirelessly) along with another wired computer and 2 XBOX's.

I want to set up file sharing on my desktop that would allow me to share the selected files from various parts of my 3 hard drives and share the entire 4th drive. I would like for anyone connected to the router to have full read access without anykind of authentication or login, but no other abilities. I also want to set it up that while I am on my laptop I have access to all of my data on the desktop.


Currently I have tried setting everyone up on the same workgroup. File sharing works, but it requires me to log in (as my only login as administrator) on the desktop.

Is there a way to allow the shares that I want?

 

[Leros]

Im not an expert on this, but I had a similiar problem. Basically, the folder or drive you are sharing has permissions on who can access it. You need to make the user "guest"a user who has access to the folder.

Right click the folder, go to properties, the setting is there somewhere. Somebody else can help you more, but until then, maybe you can figure it out with what I told you;.

 

[rasczak]

for some reason i'm not reading carefully enuff.

enable guest account,

then go back to your main account and do this

go to my computer > explore > local disk c: and what ever other drives have files you want to share. > documents and settings > your user folder > copy and paste the files you want shared over to the guest folder.

then go in to tthe guest account and share those files

make sure that the other pc's have the guest account enabled and logged in if they want access to those particular files.

 

[integramodder]

Originally posted by: jpbelauskas
for some reason i'm not reading carefully enuff.

enable guest account,

then go back to your main account and do this

go to my computer > explore > local disk c: and what ever other drives have files you want to share. > documents and settings > your user folder > copy and paste the files you want shared over to the guest folder.

then go in to tthe guest account and share those files

make sure that the other pc's have the guest account enabled and logged in if they want access to those particular files.

I cant copy the files because I'm sharing about 600 GB of data.
Is there another way to just make these drives network drives accessible by anyone?

 

[Joemonkey]

You could just allow simple file sharing.

 

[de8212]

Here's what I did. This works on XP pro machines. not sure about xp home, etc.

If you want to share an entire drive
1. make sure they have the same login/password on both machines.
2. Disable Simple file sharing.
3. On main pc (the one that you will use to access the other) go to command prompt.
4. type net use x: \\computername\drive$ /PERSISTENT:YES

x is just a random drive letter that is not in use
computer name is the computer name of the machine you are trying to access
drive$ is whichever drive you want acces to (C, D, etc.). DOn't foget the $ sign
I have heard that PERSISTENT and YES are case sensative

If you just want to access say, the desktop, on a particular machine
1. Same as above
2. Same as above
3. On main pc, go to command prompt.
4. Type net use y "\\computername\drive$\documents and settings\username\desktop" /PERSISTENT:YES

y is just a random drive letter that is not in use
computer name is the computer name of the machine you are trying to access
drive$ is part of the path of the desktop
documents and settings\username\desktop is the path