Can't Access Shared Hard Drive Over My Home Network

My desktop computer is hooked up to an external hard drive. I want to share this drive with other computers on my home network.

The hard drive is set to share, and when other computers connect to the desktop computer over the network (via a router), the hard drive shows up, but when you try to access it a message comes up: "you do not have permission, contact your network administrator. "

I'm able to share files on the desktop computer's local hard drive with out a problem.

I've already gone to the "network and sharing center" on my desktop and enabled all the sharing features, and turned off password protection. I also went directly to the drives properties and turned on sharing (the drive now has that little shared icon attached to it).

What else do I need to do?

Also, for some reason, the shared button is greyed out in the drive's properties menu. I'm guessing that has something to do with it. Here's a screenshot so you can see what I mean: http://i443.photobucket.com/albums/qq152/johnjm22/screenshot.jpg

I'm on Windows 7.

Thanks.

 

Thanks, for the reply. I already did that.

 

did that fix your issue?

 

No. It did not.

 

Then try to set it up as a network drive.

In windows explorer, go to Tools > Map Network Drive and see if you can set it up from there.

Enter \\Livingroom-pc\Path\to\shared\folder

If you get that set up on the host pc ie your Livingroom-pc, you should be able to use the same network path on the other computers.

 

Actually you need to go to the drives security tab

now once there you need to click on

EDIT .... this will open an new property sheet called permissions

now click ADD now when the select group or users opens click advanced on the bottom

this will open yet another small window now on the right hand side you'll see a button called

FIND NOW click it and this will bring up a list of users and groups

find EVERYONE in the list and double click it

this will add the EVERYONE permission to the users and group section now click ok

this will bring you back to the Permissions window

now all you need do is select the type of permissions you want people on your network to have hint if you want them to be able read/write and change/delete files then select

FULL CONTROL

click apply and then OK it will now add the everyone permission to all files/folders on the drive and you should now be able to access it form any PC on the network