Solved Remote access to hard drive without needing password

[davidald]

I have been setting up networks and servers for years and I never have had this issue. I am unable to setup Windows 7 Pro 32 bit so That other computer in the same workgroup can access E Drive without needing a Password.
I have turned off Password protected sharing.
Under security for the drive I have added the group everyone with full control.
One interesting thing is that under sharing I am seeing this. I am not allowed to click on the Share… Button.
I have been setting up networks and servers for years and I never have had this issue. I am unable to setup Windows 7 Pro 32 bit so That other computer in the same workgroup can access E Drive without needing a Password.
I have turned off Password protected sharing.
Under security for the drive I have added the group everyone with full control.
One interesting thing is that under sharing I am seeing this. I am not allowed to click on the Share… Button.

I have set this up under advanced sharing

 

[brady]

You'll have to add the "everyone" Group to the "security" tab along with the "sharing permissions".

 

[davidald]

Already done and still no joy

 

[brady]

can you UNC into: \\homeauto\ ? Does it prompt for username pw?
Are all machines in the same workgroup?

 

[davidald]

yes all are in same workgroup and it does promt you for a password.

 

[chev65]

If that drive was built on another machine you may need to take ownership of the drive to gain access "link below".

It usually works to gain access to the drive by adding rights for Everyone with the Security tab like in the picture below.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html

 

[davidald]

The drive I am trying to share is a partitioned drive on the local PC. The p[problem I am having is that it wants a login and password to access the drive remotely. I have turned off have turned off Password protected sharing.

 

[chev65]

Doesn't matter if you turned off password protected sharing, that setting is for User permissions not drive access. Drive security is much tighter than User permissions, you still need to allow for permissions on the security tab and you may need to take ownership of the drive if it was from another system.

 

[davidald]

The ownership was Administrator. I changed it to David since I am logged in under that. I have admin rights.

 

[chev65]

Between that and the Security tab? Like my picture shows, your picture only shows the "Sharing tab" You should be able to access that drive unless mayber there is an A/V software or third party firewall involved.

This looks like it was created on an XP machine.

 

[davidald]

I have it setup for best performance that is why it looks this way. it is on a win7 Pro 32bit.

 

[chev65]

Oh ok, that setting doesn't get you much unless your machine is really old and out of date. The Security tab should get you access to the drive, or at least it's worked hundreds of times in the past.

 

[davidald]

After all this time I tried it from a diff computer and no password was required. So now i need to figure out why mine does require a login and password.

 

[Lunarpancake]

I know you said its already on same workgroup but I would leave it and rejoin it with that pc just to be sure.

 

[davidald]

I tried changing the workgroup names then back and still have same issue. Then I tried to connect on 4 different computers.
1. Windows 7 home premium. No login needed.
2. Windows 7 home premium. needs a login
3. Vista home premium No login needed
4. Windos7 ultimate needs login

 

[davidald]

Ok figured out what the issue was. I had the same user name on the pcs that required a login which was on the PC i was trying to access the drive on. Thanks for sticking with me on this one.

 

[chev65]

Yes that will do it everytime. If you use a duplicate User name one of them won't show up. Although that one is a little hard to solve from here when I can't see the extra User name. Glad you got it working david.