Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

Can someone help me this is driving me nuts.

My main computers hard disk went belly up on the weekend and ive had to reinstall windows and set everything up.

For some reason the drive i was sharing before hand will now no longer share..
I have watched many videos on youtube and all settings seem ok but when i try and map the drive it says i dont have permissions.

Security wise i have also checked and i have full permissions on everyone and i have set everyone as the owner of the drive to but still nothing.

Anyone help?

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

This DOS command might do the trick:

TAKEOWN /F E:\Share /R /A

Obviously change to suit.

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

it says cannot find the file specified.

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

Maybe I'm confusing you.

E:\Share is the actual folder that needs permissions fixing, not the actual share name.

Also run DOS as Admin.

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

TAKEOWN /F E:\PICS /R /A

Tried doing this which is adding my own drive i wanna share and still had same error.

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

I don't know your Windows version but from 7 onwards this perhaps might help.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/w...ss-denied.html

I don't like how security & workgroup have made things somewhat funky, recently I had to kick my 8.1 machine into submission when it denied me the ability to move shortcuts around in my own start menu.

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

Does creating and sharing a new folder on the root of E: work? If this works, try copying (or moving) between the local folders and the newly created share, obviously remove the copy (unless moving) from the local folder afterwards. Long winded but might work.

If you have the space elsewhere ie C: drive, copy the files to this location, then format the e: drive and then create the shares again and move back, again long winded.

You could also try to disable inherittance on the folder and remove current permissions and then add the required users and set the new permissions.

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

When creating a share, you need to ensure permissions are set on the share itself and also in the NTFS permissions;

1. create folder to share
2. right click the folder and select Properties
3. click the Sharing tab
4. click Advanced Sharing
5. ticket the box to Share This Folder
6. ensure the name is ok and select Permissions towards the bottom
7. make sure Everyone has full control
8. Click OK
9. Click OK again to get back to the main Properties box
10. now click on the Security tab
11. Add in the users you wish to have access and what level of access they need - in this case, I would presume Full Control
12. Apply the changes
13. Now navigate to your share from another machine on the network
14. connect using the account on the remote machine you assigned permissions to in the form of MACHINENAME\username where MACHINENAME is the name of the machine that the share is actually on, NOT the machine you are now sitting at remotely to the share

Let us know if that helps. I would hazard a guess that step 14 might be where you are failing

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

Yes its step 14 it just says i dont have permission to access.

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

did you try to connect to the share using the format in step 14? e.g.,

OTHERPCNAME\otherpcusername

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

To create the permissions described in your previous post you need to be logged in as Admin otherwise it will fail.

Just a thought.

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

As it is a home machine, that shouldn't be an issue. the only thing that might need doing is taking ownership of the drive's folder structure in NTFS, if it is a separate physical drive, now available in a different build of windows that it was not originally setup in, as the account SIDs are no longer valid.



just a thought for alanbjames: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...2#post35816532
Have you gone over this thread again? It's exactly the problem you posted about before. I think we all might end up repeating ourselves...

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

Regone over and still no help.

It has to be something to do with security, if i try and map the drives on the machine itself it will find them yet wont on any other systems just says do not have permissions to access.

Ive even tried creatimg a homegroup and still the same.
This is driving me crazy.

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

Try disabling any firewall and or Anti-Virus products you have, see if this now allows you to access from another machine.

Also have you tried connecting via the IP Address ie: \\10.10.10.1\SharedFolder ?

Re: Cannot share a drive for some reason
 

Tried disabling kaspersky and have attempted to access the drive from the 3 other systems at home and it just says we dont have permissions blah blah and contact network operator.

I cant understand what could have changed so drastically since i had to reinstall windows, the hard disk that failed the replacement isnt the one im attempting to share.

I can share any files/folders/drivers on any other system except my main pc and its so frustrating.