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Anyone know of a reason why a Western Digital Elements 6TB External HDD would lose network share permissions on a Win7 system?
System had been running for years, no Windows updates recently, has had multiple internal and external HDDs for years. Never had any problem making network shares of any other drives, all stay permanently shared.
Hooked the WD Elements up and it keeps losing permissions, works for a while (not sure how long) then changes to not shared, while all other HDDs remain shared, and all were set up to share, identically AFAICT... NTFS, Primary Partition, Basic Disk, and no drive letter conflicts. It is not losing the share the moment (at least not the first time) the HDD goes to sleep. These are not mapped (to a drive letter on client) shares.
The only difference I can think of is it is connected through the USB hub built into a Seagate BackupPlus External HDD enclosure, but that Seagate drive never loses share permissions.
I gave it CMD net config server /autodisconnect:-1 a few days ago to see if that makes any difference. It did not, drive was shared at least 1-2 days, then by the 3rd day, drive became unshared.
System had been running for years, no Windows updates recently, has had multiple internal and external HDDs for years. Never had any problem making network shares of any other drives, all stay permanently shared.
Hooked the WD Elements up and it keeps losing permissions, works for a while (not sure how long) then changes to not shared, while all other HDDs remain shared, and all were set up to share, identically AFAICT... NTFS, Primary Partition, Basic Disk, and no drive letter conflicts. It is not losing the share the moment (at least not the first time) the HDD goes to sleep. These are not mapped (to a drive letter on client) shares.
The only difference I can think of is it is connected through the USB hub built into a Seagate BackupPlus External HDD enclosure, but that Seagate drive never loses share permissions.
I gave it CMD net config server /autodisconnect:-1 a few days ago to see if that makes any difference. It did not, drive was shared at least 1-2 days, then by the 3rd day, drive became unshared.