Resolved can I share a partition on Win7 to XP Pro

I have set up a subject specific partition on the 2nd HDD in my W7 machine and set it to share by right clicking on the partition, choosing Advanced Sharing, clicking Share this folder, clicking on Permissions and giving Everyone full control. Problem is, I cannot access it from XP Pro. I can see the shared partition in My Computer in XP but I get the You might not have permission error.

If I share a folder within the partition it works fine so my thinking is that either I cannot share partitions across the network or I need to add another step to do so.

Both computers belong to the same workgroup.

Any thoughts would be welcomed, thanks

 

If you right click on the drive from my computer and then click properties, go into the security section does the everyone group have sufficient permissions to allow access to the share?

Tom

 

yes, everyone has full control

 

If you go into control panel and then into network and sharing centre. Click on change advanced sharing options in the top left. Once in there is password protected sharing enabled? If it is turn it off. Then go back and share the drive again also make sure under security NTFS Permissions) that the everyone group is granted the correct permissions because when you make that change I think it might revert your settings back.

Tom

 

password protection is off from before I started the share

the everyone group is set to full permission

 

On you XP Pro machine can you enable simple file sharing for me if it is not already enabled

1. Double-click My Computer on the desktop.
2. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
3. Click the View tab, and then select the Use Simple File Sharing (Recommended) check box to turn on Simple File Sharing.

After you have done this can you restart the machine (XP) and try it again as it should now authenticate from the guest account and see what happens.



Tom

 

Hi again dude. I got in work this morning and we have a test machine setup with Windows 7 installed from our action pack. I tried to share the C drive at first as a whole and it didnt work very well. But i put a second disk in and managed to share that perfectly across the network to my laptop which uses XP. I didnt take any special steps just what you did. Also i made sure encryption was turned to 40 -56 bit. I was connecting from XP Pro SP3 simple file sharing was enabled and it was authenticating using the guest account.

Tom

 

Action Pack? haven't heard that before - what is that?

Basically what I am doing - I have a 2nd HDD which is broken up into 4 partitions:

• D: NTFS - Primary Partition

• G: NTFS - Logical Drive

• H: NTFS - Primary Partition

• J: FAT32 - Primary Partition

G & H are shared and I cannot access either. I hadn't changed my paging file from C yet so as an experiment I set the FAT partition to share and it works. I have since changed it back to not share

Did that and it didn't help

I don't get a window on the XP machine asking me to authenticate

When I installed W7 Pro I went from 32 - 64 bit, deleted the partitions on HDD 0 dumping the dual boot concept. I then backed up everything on the HDD 1, deleted the partitions, reformatted it and created the partitions in Disk Manager to reorganize the content. Thing is, this same set up worked when I had the dual boot with XP and the RC

I have a couple of thoughts:

1. HDD 1 itself is not set to share but I didn't do that in the previous set up

• am I going about this incorrectly by trying to share partitions vs. folders?

Thanks,
Tom (as well)

 

We are a Microsoft parnter here in the UK and we subscribe to Microsoft Action Pack and get all there latest software to use.

On the XP machine I was using if I set it to not use simple file sharing it would automatically try and authenticate using the account that I was logged onto which would fail bringing up the same error message you talked about. With simple file sharing enabled it automactically authenticates with the built in guest account of windows XP. Im assuming your using XP Pro?

Tom

 

Yes, XP Pro SP3 - just reinstalled it on Sunday

It has me baffled.

 

Yes, my desktop has 2 HDD's - the partitions I am trying to access from my laptop are on HDD 1 (W7 Pro being on HDD 0)

My Laptop is XPP SP3 and while I can see the shared partitions in Explorer on the XP machine I get an access denied response when trying to open them

If I share a folder within the partitions I can access it but not the entire partition

 

Neither the laptop nor the desktop have passwords enabled as I am a one man band

 

You sure can set it up that way. But on our test windows 7 machine I have at work and an XP Pro SP3 computer I havent had todo that. As long as simple file sharing is enabled on the xp box and the everyone group has file and share permissions on the shared drive it works fine. Im not saying it is secure doing it that way but it works.

 

I'm not concerned about security, it's only for my access purposes from different machines.

Here is a link to a screen shot of my permission settings
From what I understand they are correct adn it should work

 

I have this problem.

I have XP, Vista and W7. (Three different machines)

The W7 machine can see files on the designated* shared directory on the XP and Vista machines.

The XP and Vista machines can see the designated directory on each other.

Neither the XP or Vista machines can see the designated directory on the W7 machine (both giving the 'xxx is inaccessible - you might not have permission' message).

The weird thing is that both the XP and Vista machines can see files on: Win7\\users\public and yet I can find no difference whatsoever in the settings for the directories involved.



* By designated I mean that each machine has a specific directory set up to communicate shared files.

 

Thanks Moglex, I thought I was loosing my mind... Still have not been able to get this to work other than to make each folder within the partition shareable which is not a reasonable solution

 

That's more than I can do.

I just cannot get the non W7 machines to access the single folder that I want to get at.

 

Have you tried tashman's suggestion here?