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  1. Posts : 30
    Windows 7
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    share an entire drive in workgroup


    Skipped Vista, so I'm just learning to hate permissions in Win7. How do I enable the two other XP machines in the workgroup to access an entire drive on the Win7 machine? I've been able to set up access to individual folders (not even sure how I did that), but not to an entire drive -- in this case data drive D.
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  2. Posts : 6,879
    Win 7 Ultimate x64
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    benellard, welcome to the forums.

    Have you seen this yet?

    https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...rmissions.html
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  3. Posts : 30
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks, yes. I've done that for individual folders. The question was how do I do that for the entire D drive (which is data only)?
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  4. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
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    benellard said:
    Thanks, yes. I've done that for individual folders. The question was how do I do that for the entire D drive (which is data only)?
    Hi

    its really simple. Right click the drive go to sharing>advanced sharing>enable>apply>OK and its done

    Hope this helps.

    Kenn J++
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  5. Posts : 30
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Okay right through right click drive, sharing, advanced sharing -- then there is no "enable". I see "share this folder" which is checked, and a share name, which I obviously provided in an earlier attempt to do this. For that share I have "everyone" with full permissions, but no dice. Am I looking in the wrong place?
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  6. Posts : 18
    Windows 7
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    I have the same problem as Benellard and also do not see an "enable". I have been trying to get this to work for days. I am very interested in finding the solution to this.
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  7. Posts : 8,870
    Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
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    benellard said:
    Okay right through right click drive, sharing, advanced sharing -- then there is no "enable". I see "share this folder" which is checked, and a share name, which I obviously provided in an earlier attempt to do this. For that share I have "everyone" with full permissions, but no dice. Am I looking in the wrong place?
    There is no "enable" just put a check mark where it says "share this folder" then go to "permission's" and put checks there for "everyone" to have access. After that click on "accept" and that drive will be shared with "everyone" in your network.
    Last edited by chev65; 01 Dec 2009 at 15:19.
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  8. Posts : 30
    Windows 7
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    JFail: For me it turned out to simply be the share name on the XP machine.

    On the Win7 machine right click the drive you want to share. Select Properties. Select Sharing. Select Advanced Sharing. If there is a name in the Share box, that's what your drive will be called on the network -- it will not appear as, say, D:\, but rather by that share name. If there is no name in the box, add one.

    On the XP machine select Entire Network, then Microsoft Windows Network, then Workgroup (or whatever it's called), then the Win7 machine. The share name should appear with access to the entire Win7 drive.

    Of course this assumes that you have permissions set correctly as stated in earlier posts.
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  9. Posts : 18
    Windows 7
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    benellard:

    Thanks for the input. I still have problems. I made sure that drive C on the win 7 machine properties > sharing > advanced sharing shows a share name of "Drive C on Main" and permissions is set to everyone with full control/change/read enabled. "Share this folder" is checked. On the XP machine when I go to tools and map a drive, I can clearly see the Windows 7 machine share name but when I try to connect from the XP machine I get "Z:\is not accessible Access is denied".

    I have checked Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center settings > Advanced sharing settings which all seem to be set correctly.
    Obviously I am missing some very key point. I'll keep after it. Thanks for your help
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  10. Posts : 1,065
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #10

    I find that fsmgmt.msc (Start search box) is the easiest way to set up & manage shares.

    If password protection is on, make sure that all user account have password also, Windows doesn't like un-passworded user account across a network.
    Also make sure that everyone is on the same workgroup (WORKGROUP by default).
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