Solved Cant edit files in shared drive

[Danniee]

Hi!

Trying to share two external drives through my laptop with Win 7 to my wireless network at home. I'm pretty new at this and dont really fully grasp what I am doing but still managed to share two internal drives and one external without any big issues.

But I am having trouble with one drive. I can share it and I can see it and I can play the movies in the folders BUT from another computer I cannot delete, add or edit files, only view and play. I stayed up all night but still couldnt fix it. I tried to compare settings, checked the security tab for differences and permissions but it seems to be more or less the same settings, I say more or less because the settings have been acting weird.

I know I lack the knowledge and thats why I fail so I hope someone can push me in the right direction

 

[Kaktussoft]

Please show me the permissions of the share. And post permissions of root folder of share as well.

 

[Danniee]

Thank you for replying

Im not really sure what exact information you need. Sorry for my ignorance.

For the drive I have 3 group/usernames it seems: Everyone, Creator Owner and System. They all have full rights to the drive.

 

[Kaktussoft]

Thank you for replying

Im not really sure what exact information you need. Sorry for my ignorance.

For the drive I have 3 group/usernames it seems: Everyone, Creator Owner and System. They all have full rights to the drive.

No deny access on root folder of share? Everyone=Allow Full Access?

 

[onesixski]

You should go ahead and specifically add yourself (whatever account you're using), and give yourself full rights. That should clear it up.

 

[Danniee]

Thank you for replying

Im not really sure what exact information you need. Sorry for my ignorance.

For the drive I have 3 group/usernames it seems: Everyone, Creator Owner and System. They all have full rights to the drive.

No deny access on root folder of share? Everyone=Allow Full Access?

Hm, I really hope not. I thought it was only within my home network since I had to login to my wireless account with password? Now Im a bit worried though.

 

[Danniee]

You should go ahead and specifically add yourself (whatever account you're using), and give yourself full rights. That should clear it up.

That is what I think ive bern doing but obviously not. I dont seem to know how to do that. And user where, on my laptop or the other computeron which I cannot edit the files?

 

[Kaktussoft]

Just give EVERYONE full access on the SHARE.
AND to the folder the share points to

 

[Danniee]

Just give EVERYONE full access on the SHARE.
AND to the folder the share points to

I know I come across as very ignorant now, and the fact is that I am since I started working with networks a week ago. But I thought ive been doing exactly what you told me to do, to give usergroup EVERYONE full access and then you asked me about deny access? Sorry for the confusion :/

 

[onesixski]

If you go into the drive properties, hit the sharing tab, and click on "Advanced Sharing...", click the permissions button and what does it say? It might just have "Everyone" as read only. Obviously you should change it and vwala. But if it's all there and fine already, are you in a homegroup between your laptop and desktop? Either way, I'd just go ahead and create your shares from scratch again like this:

1. Go to My Computer and right-click on the drive you want to share.
2. Click Share With>Advanced Sharing
3. Click the Advanced Sharing... button and click the "share this folder" box, then set it up from there and be sure to give the right permissions to the "Everyone" group. That should be it.

 

[Danniee]

Alright, I got everything working now. Can edit files remotely and all!! Finally. What I did was remove every user and then only add EVERYONE in permissions for each and every drive.

But now I am worried about security. Does usergroup EVERYONE mean that anyone in close range of my wireless network can browse my shared drives if they hack my wireless account? Or can they do it even without password to wireless account? I dont want to share my drives with the world obviously :/

What I do when I add drives to my home network is this:

1. Right click on drive E:/

2. click SHARE tab

3. click ADVANCED SHARING tab

4. check SHARE THIS FOLDER

5. click PERMISSIONS

6. Remove all permissions (just to clean it up) and then click ADD

7. click ADVANCED

8. SEARCH NOW

9. choose EVERYONE

10. check FULL ACCESS/PERMISSION

and that's about it. So does this mean I have shared it with the world?

 

[onesixski]

Nope, you're fine. Only the people that are in your network can see it. As in- they need your wifi password or they have to be plugged in. It doesn't mean somehow it's bypassing any security measures you've got and allowing the world to see it... that wouldn't be smart in any way

 

[Danniee]

Thank you so much everyone for taking the time to help me out. I appreciate it VERY much. Great forum and great people.