How can I share a USB hard drive over a wired network?

[Finger78]

I have a 400g WD Mybook USB, and I have a lot of files on it for storage of my media(no programs installed just storage). Well i have it shared as I have shared other countless files/folders over my home network and nothing I do seems to work when trying to access the drive via another computer.

I have checked every possible security/permissions setting I can find in my network/share options and added everything I can to the list of whom to share to/with and still I get an Access denied message and when I hit the "diagnose" button it says something about a user name and password and user account denied. None of my settings, accounts etc have a password on them so I dont understand why it would even give this message.

Both systems are running Windows Vista Home Premium 32 over a wired network and have always shared internal drives without any problem.

Can anyone offer any help? Tech support from WD isnt available (time ran out) so mfg help is a no go.

 

[corkyg]

Sometimes Vista is funny about sharing. But, normally, if you mark the USB drive for sharing on the machine it is connected to, it will be available to another machine on the network.

OK - I just ran a test. I connected a USB drive to this machine - went to My Computer, right clicked on the drive and checked it for SHARING to include letting others on the network alter files.

I then went to my Vista machine on the network, and could access that USB drive with no problem. Sharing is controlled at the host computer.