Resolved Can't Share Folders

I'm running Win 7 Home Premium 32 bit (Computer A). The computer is part of a homegroup with another Win 7 computer running Home Premium 64 bit (Computer B). Computer B has the selected folders shared. They are visible to Computer A with read/write access.
When I try to share a folder (for example, Documents) on Computer A, I get message "Your Folder Can't be shared ". I right clicked on the folder name, selected Properties, then the Sharing Tab then I select Share - select Homegroup Read/write. When I click on the SHARE button, it runs for a short while 10-15 seconds then ends with an error: Your folder can't be shared.

Any suggestions as to how determine what's wrong?

 

Can't help directly with the problem - but - go to Microsoft.com and search 'error your folder cannot be shared'. Came up with a few suggestions.

Worth a shot.....

 

Thanks, I'll check it out.

 

Look through the suggestions and found 1 that seemed relevant, but it did not resolve the problem.

Any other ideas?

 

You could try turning off Home sharing, then share the folders individuality for each computer.

 

An absolute long shot, but you could try disabling any firewalls and check again.


I had a very similar issue a while back with McAfee. Easy to resolve once I'd isolated the cause, but it was very frustrating until that point.

 

Thanks. I tried this but it didn't change the situation. The problem remains that on the one computer, I can't setup the folders to be shared.

 

Are both computers running administrator accounts?

 

Yes, both are administrators.

 

probably the same error like here : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2123653

just set the firewall to AUTOMATIC and start the service. i know, strange thing to be unable with firewall disabled but to work with it enabled

after you share you can disable it again (still this is not recommend )

good luck

 

I wonder if the folder is not already shared since you say the documents folder
The access from another computer would be different cause its under the users map
Thats why i never use the default shares made from m$ i allways make a new folder on the root of my drive which i want to share.. else you have to mess with drive mappings to get to the user map

 

Thanks for all of the feedback. I've tried the various approaches and so far nothing has changed. I am thinking about re-installing Win 7 and see if the problem goes away.
For now, I just going to live with the situation.

 

Hi Gandalfpok, You seem to be working with a lot of info/Help so here's something I found.

I found this in Windows 7 Forum

"Share files over a network with 64Bit and 32Bit systems ".

http://www.w7forums.com/share-files-over-network-t5562.html

Cheers Neil.

 

Thanks. I'm away right now but I'll be looking into all of the new information posted when I return

 

Thanks for all of the feedback.
I have not been able to investigate all of the suggestions as I have been away.
I hope to get back to working on this within a week

 

Can't Share Folders - Investigation Going Offline

Thanks for the many suggestions and feedback. I'm planning to continnue the investigation in a couple of weeks. Until then, I'm going to mark this "Resolved" but will re-open with the results of looking into the various suggestions.