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Wik
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I want to be able to acess all of the files on a drive attached to my computer by another one on the network. Clicking on the "share" button in windows doesn't do the job as you cannot acces subfolders.

I WANT AN ANSWER NOT A LECTURE. I understand the security risks and everything, so give me an answer (if you know)


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Wik
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Please


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Hehe ... I was just buying time actually

In Win2k at least, just right-click on the drive and go to the sharing tab. Make sure you have sharing enabled in your control pannel settings.

Since I'm not an admin I don't know how subfolders work here, but I'm assuming you can, as it'd be idiotic to let people view a base drive and not subfolders by default. Anyways, the 'permissions' button probaly lets you edit this, but I'm not an admin so I can't click it .

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Posted: 9th Jan 2004 22:21
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Actualy, that doesn't allow the veiwing of subfolders. I'm messing with the permissions thing now.


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Posted: 9th Jan 2004 23:03
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You can't share an entire drive ... because there is a share in place already. It is available under a special hidden name.

For my laptop, the name of the share is \\laptop\c$

(If the backslashes don't appear, then the sequence is two backslashes, the machine name, another backslash, then the drive letter and a dollar)

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Posted: 9th Jan 2004 23:14
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I knew some one wa going to say that. I saw that somewhere but it doesnt work!


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if it asks you for a login use the admin user/pass

on some of my comps, i only share folders where it's needed like, pictures,code,downloads etc etc etc

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Ok, I'm trying to set the permissions for the account on the other computer to be able to read it (completely) but when I click to add a new account to the list thing I can only add acounts from my computer
It has a "computer" text box, but you can't change it.


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Try windows explorer -> tools -> map network drive (under XP and probably 2k).

I have a z:/ drive which is actually a drive on another PC by using that method.

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Nope


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Dave J
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Yeah, my solution was to Map the drive as well.


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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 03:23 Edited at: 10th Jan 2004 03:26
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Okay, On XP, this is what works for me:

In My Computer right click the drive, go to the share tab, select "Share this folder" and click the "New Share" button down the bottom. Enter this info:

Share Name: C$ (or drive letter)
Maximum Allowed: Selected
Click Permissions and under "Everyone" make sure they have at least "Read" Allowed.

Click OK to close everything and then try: "\\ComputerName\C$" on the networked computer.

Works for me and I get all subfolders. Also set the Permissions to allowed Full Control and Writing if that's what you want, but "Read" MUST be allowed.


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exeat, that how I did it with 98se as well. no problem accessing subs for me.

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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 03:54 Edited at: 10th Jan 2004 03:54
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tid bit:
on xp or 2000, at a dos prompt you can see you share info by typing
NET SHARE. (xp/2000 will have default shares C$ IPC$ ADMIN$)

type net share ? to get help on using command line share-setting

of course paranoid me wrote an app that propmts to close all open shares at boot up (which is ok if you are not trying to move files between network machines - closing them doesn't affect ftp or internet in any way )

just thought I'd "share"

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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 05:01 Edited at: 10th Jan 2004 05:23
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Ok, sharing the drive with the dollar sign after it worked...a little.

Now when I try to go to that path on the other computer a "login" box thing comes up. The user account is locked at \(my computer name)guest

I dont have the guest account enabled (xp) so I enabled it to no avail.
A blank password doesn't work, so I changed the password. Didn't work.

When I click ok to the login box anotherone comes up over....and over...and over until I click cancel.

When I cd to it in the command prompt it says "cmd doesn't support utc" or something.

[EDIT]BTW, I did mapnetwork drive and entered all of the user accounts I could thing of in the "connect as" box


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Open your User Accounts and set a Username/Password for Adiminstrator, then user that in the connect dialog. This will probably force you to login with your user/pass when you boot up though. How to stop that has just evaded my memory so I'll see if I can remember in a second.


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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 18:45
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Well, I have already changed my administrative password on both computers. I have winxp home so I can't login as administrator unless I'm in safe mode. I already tried connecting as administrator but I'll try it again.


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Posted: 10th Jan 2004 20:18 Edited at: 10th Jan 2004 20:46
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EDIT


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