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Thread ID: 53167	2005-01-09 10:02:00	File sharing in XP only doing half the job - help	m_pav (6721)	Press F1

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312418	2005-01-09 10:02:00	I have a small home network that's been running really well for a long time now, but I've just tried to access a shared drive (NTFS partition) over my network and though I can read the contents of the root of the drive, I can not open any of the folders. I have 4 drive letters shared from the host in total, and all of them are available, but for some stinkin reason, one of them refuses me access, though I can see it's drive letter and the first level of folders on that drive letter. I have all shares set up to allow full access and even though I have checked them 3 times over, I can still not get access past the root of the drive when browsing it over the metwork. This is where it all gets really strange. If I manually select one of the folders on the host machines drive letter that is not permitting network access to its folders and set it as shared, even though the host drive is already shared as read/write, then I can browse all of the remaining folders on that drive. How weird is that? It's got me miffed. This windows XP business is just total trash. Why should it break when I have not made any changes to it and it was working perfectly yesterday? Methinks the ms programmers should be locked in a room for a few weeks with Linux only machines so they can learn a lesson about steadfastness and rock solid stability, then apply it to this hairy monster super freak of a behemoth that the world is forced to use because hardware vendors have joined themselves at the hip with it. Has anybody really paid any attention to what microsoft really means? When you compare it with what it is now, it was an oxymoron from the outset , then they added works.... Ok, now that I have had my moan, can anybody shed any light on this?	m_pav (6721)
312419	2005-01-09 11:04:00	have you file and print sharing enabled right click on the local area connections icon within my network places (on desktop (xp)) and in there you should see File and Printer sharing for microsoft networks and it should have a tick in the box to the left of it	beama (111)
312420	2005-01-09 11:39:00	Yep. I appreciate your reply, but.... Let me put it plainly. On the host, I have drive letters D:, E:, F: & G: shared with full access to all networked machines. They all have the same settings, but for some reason unbeknown to me, F: can be seen and the folders on the root of F: can be seen on the network, but access is denied if I try to open any one of them. I went to the host machine and in addition to the root of the drive already being shared, I selected a single folder (e.g. F:\<foldername>) and shared that out too. There are multiple folders on that drive and sharing one of them in addition to the host already being shared now means that my newtork places shows both F: and F:\<foldername> , but the difference is I now have access to ALL OTHER FOLDERS on that drive. If the root of the drive was not being shared out, then I would not have access to any of the other folders under that drive letter. In short, yes, I DO have F&PS wide open. This is a glitch, not a basic setting and I need help to find out what the root cause is, kill it and put things right again.	m_pav (6721)
312421	2005-01-09 12:03:00	Thanks for your help Beama . I found the problem and it had nothing to do with F&PS . I checked the properties of the folders in F: and found a half-grey tick in the read only setting, indicating some of the files under that folder were marked as read only . No user had actually made any changes to the files properties, but the server had locked up when trying to write a backup DVD of the files on that drive, and I can only summise the files that were being backed up at the time had some sort of lock that was not released when the system was reset . Every day with windows is another day closer to Linux . Now if I could just get my wife weaned off the milk of microsoft, we'd all be able to eat the luscious fruit of Linux .	m_pav (6721)
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