How to share a drive over a Windows network...

[DJ...]

I just completed a clean Windows 7 install and am having trouble sharing folders and drives from it.

I selected the drive in question, clicked advanced sharing, selected to share this folder, and under permissions I made sure that users have full access. Under the security tab of the drive I chose to allow full control to anyone, which is what I want.

Now when I try to access this drive on the network, I can see it on the network, but when I click the drive it tells me that I don't have permission to access it. So I tried to share a folder from within the drive using the same method as above, and although I can see the drive, I can't access it.

I can access the public folders just fine, but not the drives I really need to share.

I have turned off password protected sharing as it is not needed on my home network.

Does anyone have some advice, please?

 

[biometrics]

Installed all the service packs yet?

Run Windows Update repeatedly until there is no more.

Had the same problem with the initial release.

 

[DJ...]

I found the problem.

I had to manually add the group "Everyone" to each folder within the drive and assign full control to the group. Seems Windows had a problem assigning full control to all of the files in the sub-folders and at that point just stops assigning them altogether.

I've manually done it now and all is working great...

 

[biometrics]

Yip, one of the patches would have added that back.

 

[howardb]

Had the same issue and adding "everyone" sorted it out - real pain though...