mapping shared hard drives

[dfuze]

I'm writing this from work, so I hope I'm not forgetting some other detail on the setup.

I have an older pc with 3 hard drives I use as a server. It's got 4gb of ram and an e2180. A week ago I upgraded it from windows XP to 7. When I did this, I used hard drive number 3, a 500gb samsung as the OS drive. Before I did the upgrade, erased drive 3, partitioned it as 50gb and the rest as another. I installed 7 on the 50gb partition without any issues.

The problem I'm having is connecting to this extra partition to use the space by the rest of the computers in the house. From those pcs & laptops, I can connect to hard drives 1 or 2 without issue. I can see drive 3, but when I try to map to it like I did 1 or 2, I get an error saying I don't have permission.

All PCs are on the same workgroup, and I have gone into the drive's properties and selected it to allow sharing. Not sure what I am missing to be able to access it.

 

[Ketchup]

So, did you share the whole partition (drive letter) or just folders in the drive?

If you shared the partition, can you tell me how you did it? In 7, a shared drive will have minimal permissions by default. You would need to select permissions after enabling sharing in advanced sharing to get much out of it.

 

[dfuze]

I have the entire partition shared. Drives 1 and 2 worked fine from when I had them shared in XP. Drive 3 used to be a shared drive but I used it as the new OS drive, so at one point it worked find like the other 2. To share this 3rd drive, I right clicked on the partition, selected Share With.... Advanced Sharing and selected options in there that allowed sharing on the network (I'm at work so I can't see the exact settings because work PCs are locked down). I can try to give better info when I get home.

 

[Ketchup]

Cool, interested to what is going on here.

 

[dfuze]

Ok, I figured it out finally. I opened the Properties again, this time for working drive 1 and number 3. I compared the sharing tab and it was identical. I know took at a look at and compared the Security tab. I had gone into it before and thought I had it set up, but this time I noticed that drive 3 didn't have a group "Everyone" as drive 1 did. As soon as I created it and tested it, it now maps.

Thanks for the input ketchup79!

 

[Ketchup]

Ok, I figured it out finally. I opened the Properties again, this time for working drive 1 and number 3. I compared the sharing tab and it was identical. I know took at a look at and compared the Security tab. I had gone into it before and thought I had it set up, but this time I noticed that drive 3 didn't have a group "Everyone" as drive 1 did. As soon as I created it and tested it, it now maps.

Thanks for the input ketchup79!

You're welcome, glad you got it working. I actually think these sharing/network policies (which started in Vista) make more sense/are better laid out. But they take a good bit of adjustment when one is used XP/Server 2003.